BLOW UP (1966): A MYSTERY IN SWINGING LONDON
I became interested in Italian arthouse modern cinema while researching Italian Neorealism during film school—a movement that began in the mid-1940s and lasted for about a decade, catalyzing a challenge to the dominance of so-called “quality cinema.” What impressed me most was how cinema adapted to radical socio-economic and political changes, and how reality became […]
Painting 1946
The title of this work is simply Painting. A striking and complex piece by the English existentialist painter Francis Bacon, created in 1946 using pastel and oil on canvas. At first glance, what we see is the outline of a story—obscure, fragmented, and difficult to grasp. A narrative that seems to require not only reading, […]