Italian Journal 7: CINEMATIC ITALY

Italy as set, protagonist and muse of filmmaking, past and present.

Italian Journal 7: Cinematic Italy

 

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Columns

Futurism Fashion

/ Columns, Fashion, Futurist Manifestations, Volume 20. Number I. 2009 /

Futurism Fashion Balla and Biagotti: Milan’s fashion week celebrates the centenary of Futurism with a collection of creations that seems to revive Giacomo Balla’s myth of the “Anti-Neutral Clothes” (1914). For her autumn/winter collection, Laura Biagiotti draws on Balla’s Futurist aesthetics, proposing outfits with avant-garde embellishments and agile, dynamic, playful and asymmetric forms. The “Anti-Neutral” […]

Memories from a Lost World

/ Columnists and Contributors, Columns, Futurist Manifestations, Literature, Volume 20. Number I. 2009 /

by Laura GIACALONE

It happened almost by chance. A small Italian publisher handed me this little book called Paper Fish and told me to give it a read, to see if it was any good. The moment I opened the book I knew that something had happened inside of me. I was overwhelmed by a sort of interior smile, that kind of happiness that comes when you discover something really precious, something you didn’t even know you were looking for. That was the start of my love for Tina De Rosa and of my career as a translator.

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