Italian Futurism (cinema)
Italian Futurism was a movement in film history from 1916 to 1919 influenced by Futurism. Italian Futurism influenced Russian Futurist cinema (Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Aleksandr Dovzhenko) and German Expressionism.
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), 35 min. of the original 70 min. survive
- 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
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.
See also
Major figures
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Anton Giulio Bragaglia
- Riccardo Cassano