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  RED DESERT Dailies

  RED DESERT Dailies

  These uncut and unfinished dailies from RED DESERT show the precision of Antonioni’s framing and direction of actors. Recent acquisitions of the Cineteca di Bologna, they are presented here as discovered—in both black and white and color, and without audio.

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  Gente del Po

  Gente del Po

  Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1947 • Italy

  This film of a barge trip down the Po River is, along with N.U., one of several early nonfiction shorts by Michelangelo Antonioni to look at the relationship between individuals and their environment, a theme the director would fully explore in...

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  N.U.

  N.U.

  Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1948 • Italy

  This 1948 film by Antonioni documents the lives of street cleaners in Rome. N.U. is short for Nettezza urbana, the Italian municipal cleaning service.