synopsis
synopsis
52 minutes - full HD. The first Futurist documentary on Futurism.
Reenactments, international scholars and critics, hitherto unpublished archive images and works of art.
A graphic opera, with new subjective and emo-tional viewpoint.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti tells the story in the first person about the birth and evolution of the Futurist Movement and its visionary impact on art and society from the early Twentieth cen-tury until today.
Dynamicity. Simultaneity. Speed. This is how the docudrama tells the story about the Futur-ist Movement, focusing on the intensity of the
communication in order to involve and surprise the spectator.
To Marinetti communication, in every form, was the fulcrum of the Futurist Avant-garde, the lever with which to revolutionize early Twentieth century society: every expression of creativity could be, and had to be, Futurist.
A true break with the past, illustrated with the works of the protagonists: from Boccioni to Balla, from Sant'Elia to Depero and the many others who joined the movement.
The representation of a cross section of the European society of the early years of the century, and the explosive impact the Movement had on thought and on art.
The access to the Marinetti’s family archives, the collaboration of Balla’s and Severini’s foundations and several museums granted an exclusive archive of images and factuals. Above all the historical-scientific coordination of the poet's granddaughter Francesca Barbi Marinetti, permitted the personal first person storytelling with accurate work of research and script-writing.
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Exuberant, passionate, visionary. This is how Marinetti tells the story, in the first person, about himself and Futurism: the re-enactment scenes open the different chapters dedicated to the arts that were influenced or even crea-ted by the Movement, the image of a total involvement of art and life.
From literature, the caffeine which inspired the Movement, to painting and sculpture, from archi-tecture with Sant'Elia's futuristic visions that inspired Metropolis, to words-in-freedom and synthetic theatre, and music, movies, tactilism and polymaterialism, aeropainting,
and finally the innovations of the second Futurism in fashion, design and advertising.
An overwhelming heritage that opened the door to contemporary art.
The inheritance of Futurism still unfolds before our eyes...
director
LUCA VERDONE
screenplay
ALESSANDRO ZAMBRINI
produced by
PAOLO BRUNO
MARCO GENONE
co-produced
ERIC ELLENA
IAN AYRES