The Universe of Futurism: documentary films in the Auditorium
April 12, 2010The compilation of films will be shown in the auditorium during museum opening hours presenting an overview on the origins and developments of the Italian Futurism in order to enrich the public understanding of the period and the reach of the movement.
The repertoire includes: The Futurist Adventure (2010, developed by Rodrigo Alonso), La Metrópoli Futurista(2006, directed by Art Media Editori, Vincenzo Capalbo and Marilena Bertozzi), and Giannina Censi. Danzare il Futurismo (1997, directed by Elisa Vaccarino).
The videos are shown continuously in Proa´s Auditorium and accessible at the beginning or end of the exhibition.
The Futurist Adventure, 2010
Duration: 28 minutes
Development: Rodrigo Alonso
Edition: Santiago Recart and Fundación Proa
Art historian Rodrigo Alonso, specially produced the documentary for the current exhibition. With English subtitles, this complete informative panorama displays images and original recordings of the futurist artists, such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (”Battaglia”, 1924), and Carmelo Bene (”Contra Venezia Passatista”, 1910), and fragments of the film “Thaïs”, by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1916).
La Metrópoli Futurista, 2006
Duration: 29 minutes
Idea and direction: Art Media Editori, Vicenzo Capalbo and Marilena Bertozzi
Production: Giubbe Rosse Eventi Culturali
A film that brings together a set of key twentieth century architectural projects in a virtual presentation of the futurist “New City”. The film offers 29 minutes of Futurists´ proposals on a new way of life, with an unconditional faith on technological progress and under the new rules of the emerging industrial society. The audience will have the opportunity of engaging in an architectonical utopia of the period, one never yet explored.
Giannina Censi. Danzare if Futurismo, 1997
Duration: 19 minutes
Idea and direction: Elisa Vaccarino
Archivo del 900, MART
Concluding the compilation of films, we present Giannina Censi. Danzare il Futurismo, depicting the life experiences of Giannina Censi, dancer and single futurist performer, able to express with her body and movements the spirit of Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti´s “parolibere” (freewords) and Enrico Prampolini´s “aeropitture” (aeropainting). For 19 minutes the film displays a rich systematic array of documents and photographic material of the time, a small professional and personal biography on Censi´s life with her personal comments and a warm interview. The video includes reconstructions of her performances, conducted by Censi´s students, in which the emblematic movements of aerodance, that interpret the flight of a plane and other actions inspired by machines of the twentieth century, that fascinated the futurists, are exemplified.
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