Italian futurism in cinema
Appearance
Italian futurism was a movement in film history from 1916 to 1919. It 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