[Commlist] Symposium invite - From Counter-culture to the Capitalocene: Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point at 50

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*Symposium invite below on behalf of Dr Stephen Connolly (University for 
the Creative Arts). *

*Friday 14th February, 11.00-18.00, UCA Farnham.*

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[Zabriskie point, 1970. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni]

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point was a critical and commercial 
failure on its release in 1970.

Antonioni was accused of not understanding America; the film was seen as 
a superficial aesthetic engagement with landscape and the emerging 
counter culture.

Fifty years on, the film’s attunement to capital’s impact on the 
Californian landscape – an early and trenchant visualisation of what may 
be called the Capitalocene – is coming into view.

Furthermore, in Antonioni’s rendering of the US, any trace of dissent is 
violently policed; a highly prescient mainstream framing of militaristic 
management of dissent in the land of the free.

On its half century anniversary, this symposium revisits the film as a 
precursor of cultural and environmental critique in the cinema.

Speakers will draw on contemporary reverberations of the filmmakers 
vision and his anticipation of material culture will make for a 
multi-faceted exciting symposium relevant to today's engaged students of 
film and media.

/Symposium organised by Stephen Connolly (UCA) and Matilde Nardelli 
(UWL) assisted by Emma Reyes (UCA)///

Please direct any queries to: (FilmSymposium /at/ uca.ac.uk)

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