ON THE BIRTH OF EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young unknown artists, Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra,and Leopold Survage, chose cinema in order to expand their artistic expression. Contrary to VasiliKandinski, Franz Marc, Pablo Picasso and Arnold Schönberg, these art ists' interest in cinema wasintense and unwavering. Ginni, Corra, and Survage pave the way for the outburst of the 1920s avantgarde films. Enzo Nicola Terzano studies how these experimental films fused painting and the newtechnology in fascinating and exquisite wa ys.