Now Instant and The Film Desk present the LA launch of That Bowling Alley On The Tiber: Tales of a Director.
Entry is free and will include access to the cinema where a collection of Antonioni's early short films (Gente del Po (1943), Nettezza Urbana (1948), and Sette Canne, un Vestito (1948) will be running on loop.
That Bowling Alley On The Tiber
“I’m a director who writes, not a writer.”—Michelangelo Antonioni
Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.