Notes on Michelangelo Antonioni

Today, on the other hand, physics has stated that phenomena are a series of events manifesting energy, has identified energy with matter, and, finally, has renounced the idea of law in favor of the so-called 'wave of probability.'" One might say with Debenedetti that for the contempor...

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Published in:Film criticism 1984-10, Vol.9 (1), p.4-7
Main Authors: Aristarco, Guido, Bohne, Luciana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Debenedetti, Giacomo
Epiphanies
Fate
Film criticism
Light
Modern literature
Motion picture criticism
Motion picture directors & producers
Novels
Physics
Probabilities
Reality
Writers
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Summary:Today, on the other hand, physics has stated that phenomena are a series of events manifesting energy, has identified energy with matter, and, finally, has renounced the idea of law in favor of the so-called 'wave of probability.'" One might say with Debenedetti that for the contemporary author, as for the physicist working after quantum theory, there exists the idea of "the wave of probability" which permits us merely to verify the behavior of bodies which come into contact solely because there is a statistical probability for such contact. For Antonioni, such a view of art and life, expressed competently for the first time in Flaubert's novel, is therefore the starting point for arriving at the experiences of the literary avant-garde, to the chronicles of crisis, to a new structural form of the soul that is also in Musil, Broch, and Doderer. Teige asserted that by basing filmic creation completely on technical and scientific progress, one can arrive at a total revolution of cinematographic production: "All unknown visual fields, the white dots on the map of knowledge and of intuition, will then be open and unveiled. Perhaps, in spite of the greatness of Benjamin's thought, the time has come to change the title of his stunning essay from "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" to "The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction."
ISSN:0163-5069
2471-4364