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This 1966 film, which stars the late David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, explores some of the issues at the core of the work featured in USC Fisher Gallery's exhibition, 'Transfictions: Jack Butler, Eileen Cowin, and Grant Mudford.'
Directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni, "Blow Up" casts Hemmings as a fashion photographer hooked on attaching an ephemeral meaning to anything. When he captures evidence of a murder on film, he probes it for some reliable truth, but finds it hard to reckon with. Redgrave plays a woman whose desperation to cover something up only seems like one more phenomenon in Hemmings's disinterested purview.
"Blow Up" won Cannes' Golden Palm award in 1967.
This movie explores issues at the heart of the photography featured in 'Transfictions' such as,
-Can photography function objectively to tell a true story?
-How does the photograph affect our experience of reality? and
-What is the status of the image in society?
This screening includes an introduction and discussion led by film scholar Michael du Plessis.
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