Futurist Cinema II
Duration: 72 minutes
Sunday 16th May, 5.00pm
Pacific 231, 1949. Dir. Jean Mitry. 12′
Velocità, 1930. Dir. T. Cordero, G. Martina, P. Oriani. 35′
L’Uomo meccanico, 1921. Dir. André Deed. 25′
Films synopsis
Pacific 231, 1949. Dir. Jean Mitry. 12′
Pacific 231 is both the name of the leading role locomotive and the critic and cinema theorist Jean Mitry’s short film. If the engine is the star of the action, the Swiss French composer Arthur Honegger’s music play is the protagonist of the soundtrack. This particular conjunction of cinema, music and machine produces a masterpiece, given the passion for engines that the director and composer share.
Velocità, 1930. Dir. Tina Cordero, Guido Martina, Pippo Oriani. 35‘
Captures the city dynamism combining rotating views, whirling machines, articulated mannequins and the homage to several 20th century artists such as Boccioni, Mondrian, Léger and Kandinsky. All these elements are brought together by futurist painter Oriani and the collaboration of writers Cordero and Martina.
L’Uomo meccanico (The mechanic man), 1921. Dir. André Deed. 25′
This film is a parody of serials; more precisely of one: “Master Mystery”, a thriller premiered a year before. Driven by an evil but beautiful women, the mechanic man tears down doors and walls obsessed with destroying everything that sets in its way. Saltarello, a marginal but loveable character that spends his time escaping the police, fights him. Scenes like the one where the robot persecutes a car or the duel between two robots which ends with dancing, have a very kitsch sense of humour.
Admission: $ 6
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Tags: Auditorium, Cinema, The Universe of Futurism. 1909 - 1936