TUTTAUNANOTTE: An Italian Cinematic Showcase

Join us for TUTTAUNANOTTE, a screening curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, November 13, at 7pm. The program presents works by Ludovica Carbotta, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Liryc Dela Cruz, Tomaso De Luca, Michela de Mattei, Feel Good Cooperative, Beatrice Gibson, Invernomuto, Muna Mussie, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, and Natália Trejbalová. The evening will be introduced by Ilaria Puri Purini, Arts Director of the American Academy in Rome, alongside the curators.
"Ten works by Italian artists or artists based in Italy, making their US premieres, will alternate on the screen over approximately two hours. Each piece, from different perspectives, engages with the national imagination, immersing the viewer in rarefied nocturnal atmospheres. Dreamlike or spectral, darkness becomes a space for attentive listening, while the images guide the audience through temporal dimensions ranging from the recent colonial past to distant fictional futures.

Ludovica Carbotta tells the story of the sole inhabitant of an imaginary city through a narrative unfolding among monuments and museums, sculptures and their shadows. Tomaso De Luca (AAR Italian Fellow 2017) shares a recording of a chat with the curators: a digital stream of consciousness that becomes collective. Beatrice Gibson and Nick Gordon, British artists based in Sicily, create a visual study of nocturnal gatherings in a Palermo mall parking lot, blending poetry with urban vitality. Liryc Dela Cruz, now based in Rome, continues his first-person exploration of Filipino communities abroad, venturing beyond the Arctic Circle. Pauline Curnier Jardin gives visual expression to her work with two female communities: the inmates of the Casa di Reclusione della Giudecca (Giudecca detention house) in Venice, and the Feel Good Cooperative, a collective she co-founded in Rome with a group of transgender sex workers. Starting from the darkened cinema of Asmara, Muna Mussie embarks on a personal journey that reflects her dual Italian Eritrean citizenship as well as the Italian colonial past, as seen through the eyes of artificial intelligence. Drawing on Eastern European sci-fi imaginaries, Natália Trejbalová depicts a suddenly flattened Earth while humanity loses the ability to use language. In a 16mm film processed with AI, Michela de Mattei and Invernomuto (AAR Italian Fellow 2019) document the return of wolves to the valleys of Bergamo amid missed sightings, mirages, and miraculous appearances. Finally, Raffaela Naldi Rossano guides viewers to the end of the night with a choral song celebrating a Mediterranean female alliance. At the end of the program, the melody will extend from the screen into the physical space of the e-flux Screening Room, in the presence of the artist.

The title of the program is a tribute to Toute une nuit, Chantal Akerman’s 1982 film. In one of the film’s pivotal scenes, Gino Lorenzi—pseudonym of Gérard Berliner—sings L’amore perdonerà, a song written in rough, sometimes incorrect Italian. This raw yet intensely expressive language might well be the same language spoken by the works in the showcase." —Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

TUTTAUNANOTTE marks the first public appearance of Altérité Italienne, an open-ended project initiated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi together with the artists Monia Ben Hamouda, Ludovica Carbotta, Lyric Dela Cruz, Tomaso De Luca, Michele Gabriele, Beatrice Gibson, Invernomuto, Muna Mussie, and Natália Trejbalová.

Films
Ludovica Carbotta, trailer for Monowe (2023)
Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, trailer for Le Colonne della Colombo (2024)
Tomaso De Luca & Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Ballad of the Lights (2017–2025)
Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon, Someplace in Your Mouth (2024)
Liryc Dela Cruz, Nights Without You at the End of the World (2025)
Pauline Curnier Jardin feat. the Inmates of the Convertite, Adoration (2022)
Muna Mussie, Cinema Impero (2025)
Natália Trejbalová, About Mirages and Stolen Stones (2020)
Michela de Mattei & Invernomuto, Paraflu (2025)
Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Litoral Formations (2025)

The showcase will run in an expanded form on e-flux Film’s online screening room through November and December, 2025.

This program is co-presented with the American Academy in Rome in the framework of its inaugural Italian Fellowship for Curatorial Research. It is made possible thanks to the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to [email protected]. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.

Event Venue

e-flux, 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, United States