For the sixth consecutive year, Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti has designed the official poster, and for the fifth year, of the opening sequence for the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (30 August – 9 September, 2023).
The image chosen for the poster this year “is inspired by the tradition of on the road movies,” explains Lorenzo Mattotti, and in this way seeks to express feelings of freedom, adventure, the discovery of new territories. “I played with the graphics to represent new worlds that can be explored through cinema. We are convinced that there is a great future for cinema that looks forward and ventures down new paths. Furthermore, the Venice Film Festival is celebrating its 80th edition this year and we wanted to commemorate that in the number that appears on the license plate of an imagined car. Naturally, many are the films that can be evoked by this image, such as Il sorpasso, Easy Rider or Thelma and Louise. May each of us find our own on the road movie. This is our wish for cinema, may it go far and sprint towards the future. A future of exploration, in search of new frontiers: a colourful, luminous cinema”
