Introducing the Visual Identity Author

Are you curious who came up with the starry visual identity of the upcoming Anifilm? It was graphic artist, director, animator, illustrator and comic book artist Marek Berger. He is known for his student film Pérák: The Shadow over Prague and the series Old Prague Legends. At the last Anifilm, his film The Rapid Arrows Celebrate 85 Years won the award for Best Czech Commissioned Work. Together with Ondřej Kavalír, Berger co-authored the graphic novel Octobriana, which was nominated for the Muriel Award in 2023.

‘I chose a retro futuristic esthetics and the motive of a Vernian obsolete rocket from the era of naive fantasies about the colonisation of space flying towards new cosmic adventures,’ explains Berger. The design can be classified as sci-fi, a genre which, according to Berger, infinitely expands just like space and allows us to travel through space and time, see things from new perspectives, extend the boundaries of imagination and exceed the limits of experience in evocative visions. ‘Sci-fi offers the kind embrace of escapism, a way out of bleak reality, but also a chilling warning against dark dystopias which can, in turn, become reality. Technological optimism and the wonder of innovation can mix with pure terror from the unknown. What lies ahead? Salvation or doom?’ asks the author.