At the end of Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” there’s a tennis game that has no ball, no rackets, no players… just a court and a net and the sound of the ball being hit back and forth as the camera tracks the apparent course of the ball. All else is invisible? imaginary? Bushmiller anticipates the surreal cinematic moment by over a decade… and for decidedly different purposes.
At the end of Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” there’s a tennis game that has no ball, no rackets, no players… just a court and a net and the sound of the ball being hit back and forth as the camera tracks the apparent course of the ball. All else is invisible? imaginary? Bushmiller anticipates the surreal cinematic moment by over a decade… and for decidedly different purposes.