Italian futurism in cinema

Italian futurism

Thaïs by Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1917). The film is the sole surviving Italian futurist film, and currently kept at the Cinémathèque Française. It is not based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France.
Years active	1916–1919
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]