Online screening program
November 1–December 26, 2025
e-flux is pleased to announce TUTTAUNANOTTE: An Italian Cinematic Showcase, a four-part online program curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. The series will unfold on e-flux Film over the course of November and December 2025, presented as the extension of the in-person TUTTAUNANOTTE program taking place on November 13, 2025 at e-flux Screening Room.
The program features works by Marina Apollonio, Atelier dell’Errore, Bottin, Ludovica Carbotta, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Liryc Dela Cruz, Michela De Mattei, Tomaso De Luca, Anna Franceschini, Nicola Genovese, Enrico Ghezzi, Beatrice Gibson, Invernomuto, Sonia Leimer, Miltos Manetas, Stefano Miraglia, Muna Mussie, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Jacopo Rinaldi, RM, Lorenzo Silvestri, and Natália Trejbalová.
TUTTAUNANOTTE is a showcase of films and videos by Italian artists or artists connected to Italy. One among many possible ones. What makes it distinctive is that it brings together artists who, over the past decade or so, have frayed the boundaries of national identity while also stretching the edges of their own. Italians by adoption, by origin, by chance, in transit or refugees, they have defused or imploded nationalist rhetoric, finding self-awareness in openings that transcend individuality.
The works presented here do not merely affirm the supposed ethical and aesthetic canons of their creators; they are tools for stepping outside oneself and delving into different layers of reality. Inside and outside their studios, the artists participating in TUTTAUNANOTTE research, converse, and collaborate. They grow together as collectives or form temporary alliances. They found groups, shared studios, record labels, festivals, cooperatives, theater companies, cinemas, exhibition spaces, and associations. And in doing so, they also produce moving images.
TUTTAUNANOTTE brings together some of these images in a program that, from different perspectives, engages with the national imagination, immersing viewers in rarefied nocturnal atmospheres. Across four sections that ideally trace the phases of a restless sleep, dreamlike or spectral darkness becomes a space for attentive listening, as the images guide the audience through temporal dimensions that stretch from Italy’s recent colonial past to distant, fictional futures.
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 (Love Will Forgive), 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.
Warning! TUTTAUNANOTTE is not a best-of, because “the best” does not exist, and if it does, it’s always yet to come.
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo founded by Francesco Ragazzi (International PhD in Philosophy of Art, adjunct professor of Aesthetics) and Francesco Urbano (PhD in Film & Media Studies). Their practice explores the intersections between art and reality, expanding curatorial work beyond museums and academia into diverse physical and mediatic spaces. They have developed projects for major institutions worldwide, including the MMCA (Seoul), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), ISCP (New York), CERN (Geneva), Bucharest Biennale, Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah), Centro Ricerca Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Reykjavik International Film Festival, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, La Loge (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Institut Français (Paris), Ikon (Birmingham), Futura (Prague), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), and Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi). In 2012, with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Equal Opportunities, they curated Io Tu Lui Lei, the first institutional exhibition on the cultural legacy of LGBTQ+ movements in Italy. From 2017 to 2022, they directed the archive of feminist artist Chiara Fumai, also organizing the first presentation of her work in the U.S. In 2021, they co-edited FUORI!!! 1971-1974, an award-winning anthology dedicated to the first LGBTQ+ magazine in Italian history. Between 2021 and 2022 they directed the 17th LIAF Biennial (Norway). In 2023 they curated Jonas Mekas 100! (Italy), the international program celebrating the centenary of the legendary filmmaker, with whom they collaborated extensively. In 2025, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi was named the first Italian Curatorial Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
TUTTAUNANOTTE is a program developed as part of the inaugural Italian Curatorial Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, awarded to Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in 2025. The fellowship is promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. TUTTAUNANOTTE is the first public presentation of Altérité Italienne, a project initiated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi together with artists Monia Ben Hamouda, Ludovica Carbotta, Liryc Dela Cruz, Tomaso De Luca, Michele Gabriele, Beatrice Gibson, Invernomuto, Muna Mussie, and Natália Trejbalová.
The in-person TUTTAUNANOTTE program will take place at e-flux Screening Room on November 13, 2025. Read about the event here.
Visit the TUTTAUNANOTTE online program here. For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
