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Thaïs
| Thaïs (1916), the first of Anton Giulio Bragaglia’s films, is possibly the only surviving full-length Futurist film with a copy allegedly preserved (although, alas, all but unseen) in the Cinématique Français. It was 1446 metres long, running for about 70 minutes and, according to Bragaglia’s daughter, was an ironic love story with a tragic ending. It included surreal and abstract imagery “Geometric shapes were formed and dissolved by movement, steam rose from walls and mist disrupted perspective. The Mouth of Truth breathed out clouds of smoke. There were the shortest of captions, fragments of Baudelaire. Black and white alternated with dark blue or fiery orange toning”. Thaïs has been described as curious rather than successful, but it preceded French and German experiments of the same kind.
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Lyda Borelli’s Satanic Rhapsody: The Cinema and the Occult
Discussing Nino Oxilia’s film Satanic Rhapsody (Rapsodia Satanica, 1915) starring Lyda Borelli, the author examines the influence of Bergsonism on the perception of cinema right before and during World War I. In particular, she points out the intersection between the film and, among other references, the tradition of the early Italian diva film, the plastic dynamism of Futurist painter Umberto Boccioni, the dance/performance art of Loïe Fuller, and the emerging figure of the New Woman.
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