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Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe.
Filmmaker Mark Cousins lends his inimitable voice to a new topic: Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.
Cousins excavates a wealth of archival material, primarily Umberto Paradisi’s 1922 propaganda film, A noi!, to pull back the curtain on propaganda filmmaking with stunning revelations, calling into question the intrinsic dishonesty of cinema.
Studded with his own essayistic footage and poetic reconstructions, The March on Rome is a illuminating examination of history, as pertinent now as it was a century ago.