{"id":133,"date":"2010-11-18T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portlandgreenfilm.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:11:56","slug":"the-sentimental-futurist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGFilm\/the-sentimental-futurist\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:#e20036\">The Sentimental\u00a0Futurist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGFilmProgramme\/?page_id=7\">Futurist Life Redux<\/a> &#8211; a Performa Commission with SFMOMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-536\" title=\"The Sentimental Futurist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/pg_images\/sentimentalfuturist600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> THE SENTIMENTAL FUTURIST<br \/>\n2009<br \/>\n Shana Moulton<br \/>\n 4&#8217;51&#8221;<br \/>\n4:3 aspect ratio<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-right: 35%; line-height:2em\">\n<p>In 1916 the Italian Futurist artist Arnaldo Ginna filmed, edited and generally oversaw the creation of <em>Vita Futurista<\/em> (Futurist Life), the only officially \u201cFuturist\u201d film ever made.  Created by a committee of futurists, including sculptor, painter and writer Giacomo Balla, playwright and poet Remo Chiti, writer Bruno Corra (also the brother of Ginna, and the co-creator of Ginna\u2019s hand painted completely abstract films of 1909), founder of Futurism, poet, and declaimer F.T. Marinetti, poet and Author Emilio Settimelli, painter and Ginna\u2019s film assistant Lucia Venna and Paolo Ungari, <em>Vita Futurista<\/em> directly took up several of the ideas proposed by \u201cThe Futurist Cinema\u201d manefesto, which delacred that film was the \u201cexpressive medium most adapted to the complete sensibility of the Futurist artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of Performa 09\u2019s celebration of Futurism, Performa, SFMOMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects had invited an incredible group of contemporary film and video artists to create their own versions of the original segments in <em>Vita Futurista<\/em>, re-imagining this film in relation to our future. <\/p>\n<p>Shana Moulton\u2019s <em> The Sentimental Futurist <\/em>was inspired by the <em>Vita Futurista<\/em> segment of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>In her video performances Shana Moulton probes, with humour, the interplay of a popular culture shaped by consumption and commercialised New Age philosophies and an \u201celite\u201d culture, exemplified in the spirit of Mondrian, and the late works of George O\u2019Keefe created in New Mexico.  She has exhibited and performed internationally, including solo shows at Art in General and Broadway 1602 in New York and the Migros Museum in Zurich.<\/p>\n<p> RIGHTS CONTACT:<span style=\"color:#e20036\"> not held<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><spacer><\/spacer><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>VIEWING OPTIONS<\/p>\n<p>Available for theatrical screening in the UK as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGFilmProgramme\/?page_id=7\">Futurist Life Redux<\/a> Screening Programme \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>To book a viewing contact:  <a href=\"mailto:programm@portlandgreen.com?subject=Viewing Options FLR\"><span style=\"color:#e20036\">programme@portlandgreen.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><spacer><\/spacer><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>part of Futurist Life Redux &#8211; a Performa Commission with SFMOMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects. 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