The Artist Behind The 2022 Cover

THE ARTIST BEHIND THE 2022 ICFF COVER

ALESSANDRO GIORGINI

This year the festival is presented with an innovative formula. The opening of an open-air cinema village, a return to great events in person and a push towards being social again. Elements that you managed to capture very well in this year’s poster. Can you tell us a bit about it?

In my illustrations I like to make different elements coexist, telling

complex situations in a sort of “simplifi ed view“ that relates places, people, objects, and abstract elements that are defi ned by the same lines and shapes. This is what I did with the poster for this year’s Festival edition: the program of events and the extraordinary location were extremely inspiring, allowing me to have many visual stimuli and suggestive contents. The design is created starting from the central element that depicts the extreme synthesis of the festival: two people enjoying a fi lm, sitting in an armchair which in its shape defi nes the lines of the fi gure of the colosseum. From there, a universe of other elements “explode“ that tell the story of the Festival in its many facets:

"IN MY ILLUSTRATIONS I LIKE TO MAKE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS COEXIST"

there are the iconic shapes of the Distillery District, the marvelous location that will host this edition, there is the atmosphere of the gala event, the reference to the moments dedicated to cooking, to moments of cocktails and coffee (a must for us Italians), there are the sculptures of the open air art exhibit and in the background there are a series of elements that form an “impossible“ skyline that tells Canada, passing from the ocean coasts, to the architectures that recall the big cities, all the way to the natural panoramas of woods and mountain ranges. Finally, a visual quote is hidden, taken from one of the Italian fi lms of recent years that I loved the most, and that was awarded by the Academy. But I will leave it to those who look at the festival poster to fi nd out which one it is.

We know you are a movie buff. Among the illustrations of the posters of past lms, which one is your favourite and why?

The list of my favourite fi lms is quite long, each one is there for different reasons. The one I am most fond us is Ghostbusters, this is because it was the fi rst fi lm I went to watch at the cinema. I still remember the emotion of that Sunday afternoon spent in the small movie theatre of the village I was born and raised in. The magic of the images projected on the big screen that kept us glued to our chair. I rewatch Ghostbusters at least once a year because it reminds me of the moment I fell in love with cinema.

We have seen that your illustrations can also become animated images, have you ever thought about making a cartoon or a short lm?

It has always been a dream of mine and I have approached “animated“ productions several times. I have realized how the production of a cartoon is a very tedious job and that it really involves a lot of effort. Who knows, maybe one day I will be able to be part of an animated production and fulfi ll this dream.