Blow-Up

  • May 2, 2025 / 19:00
  • May 11, 2025 / 15:00

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni 
Cast: David Hemmings, VanessaRedgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle 
UK, Italy, 1966, 111', DCP, color 
English with Turkish subtitles  

Blow-Up tells the story of Thomas, a successful fashion photographer living in London. As he goes about his daily routine, capturing fashion shoots and ordinary moments, he accidentally photographs a mysterious event in a park. Upon enlarging (blowing up) the images, he begins to suspect that his pictures contain clues to a murder. However, the more he tries to confirm the truth, the harder it becomes to grasp reality.  

Blow-Up opens a discussion on how photography—and visual media in general—shapes reality, questioning the modern individual's relationship between perception and truth. Throughout the film, Antonioni immerses the audience in the same sense of uncertainty that Thomas experiences, raising the question of whether photography, like cinema, presents reality as it is or in a constructed form. 

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