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Italian futurism in cinema

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Italian futurism in cinema

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.

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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

    • Major figures

  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • Anton Giulio Bragaglia
  • Riccardo Cassano

    • References

    Italian futurism in cinema Wikipedia
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