The exhibition also documents the generations that came after Rambaldi and how, after the boom years of the digital revolution, those generations have now returned to mechanotronics to combine it with digital technology. The Makinarium Group, a world leader in the sector, has restored Rambaldi’s work for the exhibition while a separate section explores their work in the cinema today.
There is a continuity between the work of the Ferrara-born master and the techniques used to achieve special effects today, the construction techniques behind some of the Makinarium Group’s monsters bearing an extraordinary similarity to the creatures that populated the cinema of the 1970s and ‘80s.