Years active | 1916–1919 |
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Location | Italy |
Major figures | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Anton Giulio Bragaglia and Riccardo Cassano |
Influences | Russian Futurist cinema and German Expressionist cinema |
Italian futurist cinema (Italian: Cinema futurista) was the oldest movement of European avant-garde cinema.[1] Italian futurism, an artistic and social movement, impacted the Italian film industry from 1916 to 1919.[2] It influenced Russian Futurist cinema[3] and German Expressionist cinema.[4] Its cultural importance was considerable and influenced all subsequent avant-gardes, as well as some authors of narrative cinema; its echo expands to the dreamlike visions of some films by Alfred Hitchcock.[5]