Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection Futurist Cinema, Rossella Catanese explores that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.

Contributions by: Giovanni Lista, Paolo Bertetto, Valentina Valente, Sabine Schrader, Wanda Strauven, Elisa Uffreduzzi, Antonio Saccoccio, Giancarlo Carpi, Denis Lotti, Rossella Catanese, Lucia Re, Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Francesca Veneziano, Fernando Maramai, Marcello Seregni