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Zabriskie Point

Screening on Film
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor.
US, 1969, 35mm, color, 110 min.

Zabriskie Point, Antonioni’s first film set in the United States, reflects his impression of the country during the tumultuous years of the late Sixties. The film chronicles the movement of two disconnected youths as they cross paths and traverse the American desert. The film clearly establishes a tone that rejects authority and materialism, and its over-simplification of the dichotomy between the counterculture and authority/materialism could be seen as problematic. However, Antonioni’s visual rendering of the contrast between imposing urban space and open desert, as well as two fantasy sequences, result in a subtle and poetic impression of the period.

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