Vita Futurista. Italian Futurism 1909-44 - ACE170.5

Venice. VO Massimo Carrà, son of Cubist Carlo Carrà. Carrà on how the Futurists turned out to share ideologies and poetics with other art movements. Photo of Carrà; films of Paris from the early 20th century. Massimo Carrà on how his father was not an orthodox Futurist, but had acquired Cubist ideas as well. Details from Manifestazione Interventista / Patriotic Celebration or Manifesto for Intervention (1914) by Carrà, demonstrating Cubist ideas with Futurist contributions. Giacomo Balla’s Velocità astratta - l'auto è passata / Abstract Speed: Passing Car (1913), and other works including sketch and sculpture Linee Forza del Pugno di Boccioni / Boccioni’s Fist (1915). Photograph of Balla and his family. His two daughters, Elica and Luce (Propeller and Light) still live in the house in Rome which he had turned into a total Futurist environment. VO Elica Balla. Elica Balla, on her father’s search for "impalpable patterns". VO continues over shots of the interior decorations of the house, on Balla’s "implacable quest for movement, for the lines of thought". Some of Balla’s Compenetrazioni Iridescenti / Iridescent Permeations (1912-1913) series. Balla’s poems Temporale / The Tempest and Paesaggio / Landscape (1914)
performed by the Trio Exvoco (Hanna Aurbacher, Theophil Maier and Ewald Liska). Programme for Caffè Concerto, "Poesia", in Milan, created by Francesco Cangiuno, Neapolitan artist, using "free typography", "The Alphabet of Surprise".