Italian futurism in cinema

Italian futurism, an artistic and social movement, affected the Italian film industry from 1916 to 1919.^[1] It influenced Russian Futurist cinema^[2] and German Expressionism.^[3]

Marinetti.

Film of Italian futurism[]

• Vita futurista ("Futurist life"), directed by Arnaldo Ginna & Lucio Venna (1916), lost film
• Un dramma nell'Olimpo, directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1917), lost film
• Il mio cadavere ("My Corpse"), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1917), lost film
• Thaïs ("Thaïs"), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1917), only 35 min. of the original 70 min. runtime survive^[4]
• Il re, le torri, gli alfieri ("The king, the rook, the bishop"), directed by Ivo Illuminati (1917), lost film
• Il perfido incanto ("The Wicked Enchantment"), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1918), lost film

Major figures[]

• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
• Anton Giulio Bragaglia
• Riccardo Cassano

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Gallery from Thaïs (1917)[]

Bibliography[]

• Giovanni Lista, Cinema e fotografia futurista, Edizioni Skira, Milan, 2001.
• Giovanni Lista, Le Futurisme : création et avant-garde, Éditions L'Amateur, Paris, 2001.
• Giovanni Lista, Cinéma et photographie futuristes, Skira-Flammarion Éditeur, Paris, 2008.
• Giovanni Lista, Le Cinéma futuriste, Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Les Cahiers de Paris Expérimental, Paris, 2008.
• Giovanni Lista, Il Cinema futurista"", Le Mani-Microart's Edizioni, Gênes, 2010.
• Rossella Catanese (ed.), Futurist Cinema. Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2017.

See also[]

• Modernism
• Cinema of Italy
• Futurism

References[]