42nd Bergamo Film Meeting

Published March 19, 2025

Contributed by 205TF

Since 1983, the Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus has worked to promote quality cinema, exploring new international productions and great masterpieces of the past, offering opportunities for further study and analysis.

This year the festival dedicated a retrospective to Sasha Guitry. The image is based on the film Le Roman d’un tricheur; Luigi Stanga and StudioSuq chose three sequences and worked on different concepts related to the film. The introduction of sound in cinema took place in the 1920s and 1930s. Guitry’s film is an experiment that in some ways goes back to silent cinema, a story and narrative developed in the first person, with continuous commentary and almost no dialogue. In the 1910s, Autochrome offered a wide range of expressive possibilities to the world of photography, art and fashion. The first colour films were marketed in 1936, the year of Guitry’s film. This project was done by coloring the frames with various layers.

The typeface Garaje, designed by Thomas Huot-Marchand and distributed by 205TF, is reminiscent of the billboard style used in cinemas in the 20s and 30s, with the distribution of text in fixed lines/spacing. The poster for the festival opening (a live soundtrack of the movie El ángel exterminador), on the other hand, is inspired by the 1962 film El ángel exterminador by Luis Buñuel. To accompany the titling font, the texts in the program are composed in Christian Schwartz’s Neue Haas Grotesk.

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