Vita Futurista. Italian Futurism 1909-44 - ACE170.2

Tango dancers on railway station; black and white footage of train wheels. Dancers and train pistons; train driver; train, railway lines, etc. VO shouts "A basta con tango e Parsifal! Down with tango and Parsifal!", and more from the 1914 Tango Manifesto. Exterior of the house in Milan where Filippo Tommaso Marinetti launched his Futurist manifestos. Interior. Photographs of Marinetti. House interiors seen through distorting lenses. Carlo Carrà’s Ritratto di Marinetti / Portrait of the Poet Marinetti (1911). Street scenes in Italy in the early days of the 20th century. Photograph of Marinetti in a car. Footage of car manufacturer’s workshop. VO says that Marinetti celebrated the crashing of his car in the founding manifesto of Futurism, believing that technology would change perception of social and sexual conventions. Marinetti’s words VO: "We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. Courage, audacity and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry...". Early motor-racing scenes. Marinetti’s VO on the beauty of speed, etc. Poster for Viva Marinetti. Views of Venice. VO relates how Marinetti hurled anti-Venetian leaflets and tirades against Venice and the Venetians, "we denounce Venice…". Military aircraft flying in formation. Interior Palazzo Grassi, Venice 1986: Hosting an exhibition to celebrate Futurism. Early aeroplanes, once the object of Futurist admiration are now museum pieces.