CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2000 POSTER

This large -scale poster, designed by Lorenzo Mattotti was the official poster for the fifty-third Cannes Film Festival in May 2000.

Whimsical and yet insightful, it shows a filmmaker as he is climbing out of a white movie screen with one foot on the ground and the other not yet out. In motion, he is holding his camera up and filming the auditorium - more precisely, the audience in the auditorium, though they are not visible.  

Mattotti (b. 1954) is a prominent Italian artist who has done illustrations for comics, books, magazines and events. This design he did for the 2000 Cannes Film Festival is one of his most notable.