Record of War is a very rare screening exploring Fascism, colonialism, propaganda, and the aesthetics of warfare, inspired by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. First staged two years after the invasion, as the international situation worsened, Record of War is live cinema, ‘cut’ in the projection booth. Reels from two films about the invasion, one Italian, one Soviet Russian, radically opposed in viewpoint, are ‘dovetailed’ by the projectionists... see more