Author Francesco Spampinato

Francesco Spampinato

Francesco Spampinato is a New York-based contemporary art and visual culture historian and writer. He is PhD candidate in Arts et Média at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, and for the past five years he has been Adjunct Professor at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. He is the author of Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, and Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, both published in 2015.

Comizi di Non Amore: Francesco Vezzoli Revisits Pasolini through Reality TV

Francesco Spampinato

December 2015

The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Translated in English as Love Meetings, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore (1964) should have been better translated literally: “Debates About Love.” The feature-length documentary, often referred to as an It...

Welcome: An Insight into the Landscape of Contemporary French Consciousness

Dreams of Italy’s Past: Giuseppe Rotunno’s Cinematography in Amarcord and The Leopard

George Romero’s Zombie Movies: The Fragmentation of America

Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Akomfrah’s Handsworth Songs and McQueen’s Red, White and Blue

Baron Lands: Environmental Upheaval and the Texas Oil Movie

“Cinematic Comrades”: Bong Joon-ho’s Auteurism and Song Kang-ho’s Performance

Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement: A Filmmaker’s Reappraisal

The 13th Trieste Film Festival: "Alpe Adria Cinema"

Disenchantment of the World: IFFR 2021

IFFR 2021: High art, casual conversation

Rediscovering the Forgotten Gems of a Decade: Austrian Auteurs of the 1970s at the Viennale

Pandemic Dreams: The 71st Berlinale

Some Winners and Then Some: Sundance 2021

Forgotten Wars: The AFI FEST/AFM 2020 (Virtual Events)

Sam Peckinpah: Interviews edited by Kevin J. Hayes

Time Machines: After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy, edited by Jeremi Szaniawski

The Politics of Ambiguity: After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition, by Kalling Heck

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Three Crowns of the Sailor

Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (Robert Land, 1929)

Shimizu Redivivus: Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)

Pit Stop: Billy Wilder’s Mauvaise graine (1934)

“This is You, You Bastards”: Ace in the Hole (1951)

The Major and The Minor (Billy Wilder, 1942)

Leone, Sergio

Obayashi, Nobuhiko

Lee, Spike

Lumet, Sidney

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Comizi di Non Amore: Francesco Vezzoli Revisits Pasolini through Reality TV