Instead, traveling video companies would pack a generator and a VCR into a van, and take a makeshift roadshow from village to village. In the 1980s you’d be hard-pressed to find a movie theater in Ghana. The Deadly Prey Gallery features some 600 posters at any given time, many of which are sold, as Chankin claims, to fund the addiction of obtaining even more.Ĭhankin’s quest for more posters fostered an education in Ghanaian film exhibition. What started as a collection of fifteen items soon ballooned to much bigger proportions. on a “buy now, pay later” agreement, which any collector would be crazy to pass up. The first few came from eBay, the next few from a person closer to the source - who Chankin found deep in the annals of a Google search, and who was willing to ship posters to the U.S. The Deadly Prey Gallery began not as an exhibit, but as a personal quest for Chankin, whose insatiable desires as a collector led to the founding of the aptly-named Odd Obsession Movies, a video store specializing in genre cinema, which he opened using his own personal stash.Īfter discovering the “extremely intricate and brutal” posters in a book titled Ghanavision: Hand-Painted Film Posters from Ghana, Chankin sought to obtain some pieces of his own. A visual respite from our current world of cookie-cutter/floating head film advertisements, made in what feels like minutes on the most basic of photoshop software, these eye-popping delights are like nothing you’ve ever seen, and Chankin wants to see them all. Teardrop Scarab ( Limgrave: Western beach.Brian Chankin curates the Deadly Prey Gallery, a collection of hand-painted movie posters from the world of Ghanaian cinema, a selection of which will be on display at PhilaMOCA during the Cinedelphia Film Festival.Teardrop Scarab ( Caelid: Found near the edge of the cliffs northwest of the Isolated Merchants Shack in Dragonbarrow).Teardrop Scarab ( Limgrave: Near Third Church of Marika, next to an eye-catching whirlwind).Teardrop Scarab ( Altus Plateau - Capital Outskirts: Can be found leaving its glowing footprints inside the short rocky tunnel in the lake directly east of the Outer Wall Phantom Tree site of grace).Teardrop Scarab ( Limgrave: Bridge heading east).Found on a portion of the road that slopes upwards, past an area with a broken Hearse) Teardrop Scarab ( Weeping Peninsula: Along the main road taken from Limgrave in the east.Teardrop Scarab ( Caelid: Found along the Caelid Highway).Teardrop Scarab ( Liurnia of the Lakes: An invisible scarab is found roaming the shallow body of water southeast of Caria Manor).Godrick Knight (Specific Knight in Stormhill).Accessible by jumping across the rooftops)
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