TUTTAUNANOTTE. An Italian Cinematic Showcase.
e-flux Screening Room, 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:00 pm.

Curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
Introduction: Ilaria Puri Purini, Arts Director of the American Academy in Rome.

Ludovica Carbotta, Monowe (trailer), 2023
Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative, Le Colonne della Colombo (trailer), 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

TUTTAUNANOTTE is a film and video showcase curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, taking place at the e-flux Screening Room in Brooklyn on Thursday, November 13, from 7:00 pm. Ten works by Italian artists or artists based in Italy, making their U.S. 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. Introduced by Ilaria Puri Purini –Arts Director of the American Academy in Rome– together with the curators, the showcase encompasses a variety of formats and genres.

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.

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.

The showcase continues in expanded form on e-flux’s digital platform from November 1st to December 26th, 2025.

Buy your ticket