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The Italian poet F.T. Marinetti, chose the
Parisian public as the target for his 1909 Futurist Manifesto
of "incendiary violence," calling for an end to all
art that refused to embrace the social transformation brought
by technology in the new century. It was in cinema that Marinetti
and his colleagues saw the potential for a form of expression
that reflected the speed and energy of the times.
In the Futurist Cinema manifesto
of 1916, they declared cinema could be the most dynamic of human
expressions because of its ability to synthesize all of the
traditional arts, unleashing a form that was totally new. The
Futurist cinema would free words from the fixed pages of the
book and "smash the boundaries of literature," while
it would enable painting to "break out of the limits of
the frame."
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