11 Intonarumori

"One photograph, filmed, manipulated and edited in the camera. The Futuristic painter and composer Luigi Russolo can be regarded as the first Industrial-noise artist. The photograph used to make this entire film is one of the few existing traces of his work. Also the sound is original and the only recording known of the music. We see and hear Russolo and his 11 noise machines or Intonarumori. A homage to one of the few Futurist who succeeded in putting their manifest to reality. Apart from the visual experience this film also raises questions on what a ‘documentary’ is. It presents itself not as an objective registration of reality, but as a subjective visual communication within the possibilities of Cinema and without the usual narrative stream of information that reduces the image to an illustration of what is being said." (Source: Didier Volckaert)