Visual design for the movie ‘Il Compleanno’, produced by Zen Zero films and presented at the 66th Venice Biennale.
The film, starring Alessandro Gassman, Maria de Medeiros, Massimo Poggio and Michela Cescon, is almost entirely shot in Circeo, on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
While watching the movie, I was strongly impressed by a frame showing just the empty beach, and somehow suggesting the drama that was to develop in the prosecution of the film. The contrast between the title (the Birthday) and the empty and quiet image seem to work. This solution was chosen, a new photo was taken for the purpose and used on posters and promotion materials.
