TUTTAUNANOTTE is a screening 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.

The screening traverses a wide range 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 (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 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 (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabbuchi, Italian Fellows 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 (2025 MAXXI/Bvlgary Fellow), Ludovica Carbotta, Lyric Dela Cruz, Tomaso De Luca (2017 Fellow), Michele Gabriele, Beatrice Gibson, Invernomuto (2019 Italian Fellows), Muna Mussie, and Natália Trejbalová.

The showcase will continue in expanded form on e-flux’s digital platform in the weeks following the screening.

Bio

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo founded by Francesco Ragazzi (International Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art, adjunct professor of Aesthetics) and Francesco Urbano (Ph.D. 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 National 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 in 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 Fellows at the American Academy in Rome.