Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890–1960) was an Italian polymath — pioneer of Futurist photography and Futurist cinema, theatre director, and impresario of the Roman avant-garde. Born in Frosinone, he grew up around his father's Roman film studio and published the manifesto Fotodinamismo futurista in 1911, introducing photodynamism — a technique that recorded the trajectory of movement rather than a single frozen instant. Excluded from the official Futurist group in 1913 at Umberto Boccioni's insistence, he founded the film studio Novissima-Film and produced visionary Futurist films including Perfido incanto and Il mio cadavere; his Thaïs (1917) survives as the only extant Italian Futurist film, distinctive for Enrico Prampolini's geometric production design. He later opened the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia gallery (1918) and ran the experimental Teatro degli Indipendenti in Rome from 1922 to 1936.