New décor by the Maestro Dante Ferretti and new graphic restyling by the studio Graph X.

In honour of the 75th Anniversary of the Venice Film Festival the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia has invited the Oscar winning Dante Ferretti to revisit the external décor of the Palazzo del Cinema, which he himself designed in 2004 and has been part of the Mostra for the last 3 years. The big steel sphere which Ferretti created with Federico Fellini for the masterpiece Prova d’Orchestra (1979), will be the main characteristic element of the new décor which will be visible to the public at the 64th Mostra (29 August – 8 September 2007).

The new décor designed by Ferretti is in line with the philosophy of La Biennale, i.e. that in the year the Venice Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary it will find its future by looking into its past. Dante Ferretti declared: “The sphere that smashed into the wall of the thirteenth-century Chapel in Prova d’Orchestra was a symbol of demolition, of destruction, but also a metaphor for a future reconstruction, of a vision capable of surpassing the chaos of the present and the precariousness of circumstance. ”.

The studio Graph.x - Lissoni Associati has integrated the project devised by Dante Ferretti with new graphics which characterises all parts of the Mostra and incorporates communication materials (from posters to large backdrops), singling out one graphic subject, the Lion of Venice, but depicting it in a different way. The Lion of Venice will thus no longer be merely an emblem of the city and of cinematographic manifestation, but will become a cue, a starting point for other forms, as in a light show or Chinese shadow dance, a metamorphosis of luminous figures on a screen.