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Canudo founded the Gazette des Beaux-Arts and later the Revue de l’Époque . But his lasting legacy was his role as the godfather of cinephilia. He organized the first film clubs ( Le Club des Amis du Septième Art in 1921) and argued obsessively that cinema was not a "poor relation" of theater or painting, but a complete, autonomous art form.
Initially conceived in 1911 as "The Birth of a Sixth Art" (excluding dance), the final version was published in . Canudo argued that cinema is a "total art" that synthesizes the three spatial/plastic arts (Architecture, Sculpture, Painting) with the three temporal/rhythmic arts (Music, Poetry, Dance). View or Download the Manifesto Ricciotto Canudo Manifesto Das Sete Artes Pdf
