Michelangelo Antonioni

  • About
  • The Passenger (1975): A Film Analysis by Vashnee Persaud

    June 11, 2022
  • Video Essay: Antonioni’s Cinema of Absence

    Video Essay: Antonioni’s Cinema of Absence

    MUBI: A new video essay explores how the films of Antonioni invite viewers to take responsibility for their own understanding of reality.

    March 23, 2021
  • Video Essay: How Antonioni Uses Locations

    Video Essay: How Antonioni Uses Locations

    The Discarded Image takes a look at Michelangelo Antonioni’s use of locations in films like L’Avventura, L’Eclisse, Red Desert and Blow-Up.

    February 14, 2021
  • Antonioni’s Tomb

    Church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa, Ferrara, Italy

    February 1, 2021
  • Documentary: Dear Antonioni (1997)

    Documentary: Dear Antonioni (1997)

    In 1980 the great French philosopher and author Roland Barthes wrote an open letter to Antonioni. It is an appraisal of Antonioni’s place as an artist in the world. Barthes was a revolutionary thinker who, like Antonioni went beyond conventional modes of analysis. Dear Antonioni is linked by that letter, examines the life and work […]

    January 31, 2021
  • Antonioni’s Seaside Villa

    Antonioni’s Seaside Villa

    In the 1960s, Antonioni commissioned Dante Bini to create a unique Sardinia villa, based on the original “Binishell” concept. La cupola was built by inflating a balloon underneath raw concrete, shaping it into a self-supporting half-sphere. The director was an active collaborator and infused the project with rich imagination. He invented details like slab stairs, […]

    January 30, 2021
  • John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni and Satyajit Ray

    John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni and Satyajit Ray

    Cannes Film Festival, 1982

    January 29, 2021
  • Welcome

    We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see. Michelangelo Antonioni

    December 10, 2020

Michelangelo Antonioni

Proudly powered by WordPress