Trieste Science+Fiction 2024 Festival Gets Zerocalcare Artwork

One of the leading science fiction film festival’s Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, have shared the 2024 edition artwork. An original illustration created by cartoonist Michele Rech, aka Zerocalcare, one of the most beloved authors on the Italian and international comics scene.

This year’s festival is set to take place from October 29th to November 3rd. Check out the Poster below…

The poster for the 24th edition of the Trieste festival illustrates the challenges and fears evoked by the advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence, a technology that is no longer just the future but also the present in which machines, for the first time, are able to create something as new and artistic as a written text or an illustration. In fact, the recent development of Artificial Intelligence is leading us toward a science fiction movie scenario: a Fourth Industrial Revolution that will cause profound social disruptions and economic changes, completely reconfiguring the world of work and thus society itself. A revolution that opens up new possibilities, but also raises fears and fears by ushering in new and unpredictable scenario.

As Zerocalcare explains, “the poster tells the story of the distance between how I imagined science fiction as a kid and how my expectations have evolved: we used to think that in the future machines would do the alienating and exhausting jobs, leaving humans free to dedicate themselves to the arts. Today, quite the opposite, the evolution of artificial intelligence shows us a possible dystopia in which machines replace us in drawing and writing, while people continue to wake up in the morning to go to their worksite”.

Artistic Director of Trieste Science+Fiction, Alan Jones said “From the past to the present and the future AI is in all our lives. That’s the reason the Trieste Science+Fiction mission statement this year is ‘BrAInstorm the MegaFuture’, something the global community needs to do as a matter of urgency. Because I am also the co-director of FrightFest, I see a very wide selection of genre films on both the busy FrightFest and Trieste Science+Fiction submission platforms. So there is a certain crossover aspect that I wholeheartedly embrace because if a title works for the discerning FrightFest audience, I know it will also work for the Trieste Science+Fiction spectator too.

Films shared between the two festivals in 2024 are SURVIVE, THE BUNKER, TEST SCREENING, BROKEN BIRD, THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR, THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, SO UNREAL, THE A-FRAME and THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE. I’m especially thrilled to present the latter documentary to the Trieste viewer because Christopher Lee was a past Trieste S+F Lifetime Achievement Award winner and we will be augmenting our screening with exclusive footage of the genre icon shot while we hosted him in the city he so warmly embraced.”

For a full list of what films 2024 edition have, head over to the festival’s official website.  The  Trieste Science+Fiction Festival will take place from October 29th to November 3rd.