The Architecture of Vision Writings and Interviews on Cinema

“ A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.” Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L’ Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.

Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director’ s unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.

“The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmaker’ s absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni’ s comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“[Antonioni’ s] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”—Film Quarterly
 
“ This valuable resource offers entré e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”—Library Journal