One year after the 150th anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s birth, HEAVEN art broadcast Thursday December 18, 2025 in the early evening ore 21.15 and then repeated at 10:50 p.m the documentary MARINETTI’S AIRPLANEa film by Eleonora Zamparutti and Piero Muscarà, produced by ARTE.it Originals in 2024.The film is a story that describes Marinetti’s parable as that of a pioneer. The airplane is the symbol that best represents the life adventure of a man and an artist who experienced firsthand the desire to take off.
Genius or buffoon? Revolutionary or man of the regime? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti remains a difficult mystery to solve today, almost 80 years after his death.
We remember his excesses, his theatrical coups, his explosive desire to change everything, disrupt the order of things and raze the past to the ground to glorify the new, the modern, the future world.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is the father of futurism, the living demonstration that words can change the world. His Manifesto spawned the most important artistic avant-garde of the 20th century.
His story simultaneously describes an extraordinary and terrible trajectory, intertwined with a historical period, that of the beginning of the century, in which the scientific, technological and industrial revolution transformed the planet with a force and speed never experienced before.
Marinetti was one of the most important exponents of Italian society of the twenty years, a friend of Mussolini. That friendship, while crucial, cost him dearly and ultimately endangered him beyond repair.
Marinetti pointed the nose of his imaginary flying machine towards the sun of a perhaps unattainable future, which in any case was impossible to realize in the real context of Italian society.
He finally collapsed to the ground, leaving behind only fragments, traces and experiments that were buried for a long time and deliberately forgotten by the men who came after him.
Even the works of his brilliant invention, Aeropittura, were hidden in museum storage after his death. Only recently has that art been legitimized.
MARINETTI’S AIRPLANE is a documentary that interweaves futurism, aviation and propaganda on parallel narrative levels, describing the avant-garde in art, politics and society in Italy at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The novelty represented by the Aeropittura Manifesto, published in 1929 as an expression of the second futurism with its champions – Enrico Prampolini, Gerardo Dottori, Tullio Crali and many others – intersects the story of the beginning of Italian aviation with the first aircraft created by Gianni Caproni and by other brand new Italian industries, which together became the most powerful propaganda tool of a regime that wanted to make its flag of modernity, but which in reality betrayed the hope of a society, the Italian one, that was incapable of real change.
With original interviews with Guido Strazza, futurist artist; Lodovico Isolabella, lawyer and collector; Giordano Bruno Guerri, historian and writer; Günter Berghaus, Senior Researcher, University of Bristol; Federico Zanoner, head of the Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero; Denis Curti, curator and photography historian; Massimo Duranti, art critic and historian of futurism; Daniela Ferrari, curator of MART; Fabio Benzi, professor of contemporary art history, University of Chieti; Giacomo Coronelli, antique dealer, Pontremoli bookstore; Matteo Fochessati, curator of the Wolfsoniana, Genoa; Francesca Barbi Marinetti, critic and curator, granddaughter of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; Roger Griffin, historian, Oxford Brookes University; Gino Agnese, writer and biographer; Pierfrancesco Meazzini Boccadoro, nephew of Gianni Caproni; Vieri Quilici, architect and professor of architectural composition, University of Roma Tre, son of Nello Quilici; Anna Bartolozzi Crali, daughter-in-law of Tullio Crali.
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