Vita Futurista. Italian Futurism 1909-44 - ACE170.7

Mussolini in motorcade. Enrico Crispolti, art historian, on the political Futurist party. Footage of street fighting and prop-Fascist demonstrations. Rome. Crispolti says that Fascism later rejected Futurist support. Marinetti moved to Rome. Poster for his Zang Tumb Tumb. Loudspeakers. Words heard over film of building sites with men and machines, hydro-electrical stations. The Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista (Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution) (Rome, 1932), Futurist in style but without Futurist participation. Luce Marinetti comments on her father’s continuing struggle. Photographic portrait of Marinetti by Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni). Photograph of Futurists. Marinetti Sun (1920) and Marinetti Sun monochrome version (1914) both by Rougena Zatkova. Film of Marinetti at Fascist aerial event. Comandante Ferrari, aerobatics pilot, reading from Futurist writing on aviation over scenes of stunt flying. Marinetti’s voice heard reading one of his "aero poems", Spiralling Over the Gulf of Naples; Inferno di Battaglia sul Paradiso del Golfo / Inferno of Battle in the Paradise of the Gulf, by Gerardo Dottori, 1941), Dinamismo Aereo (1922) and similar by Vittorio Corona. Depero Futurista / The Bolted Book (1927), various posters, etc.