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.