UK 1966 Color 35mm 110minutes Director Michelangelo Antonioni Screenwriters Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond Photography Carlo Di Palma Music Herbie Hancock Cast David Hemminsa, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles Blow Up A top-flight photographer secretly takes photos of a couple he sees embracing in a park. Through a series of blow-ups of the many exposures he snaps, he find clues to a murder. Taking a new direction with a new language, setting and editing rhythm, Antonioni makes an intriguing statement on the ambiguous nature of the film medium itself. Neither a portrait of Swinging London nor a bona fide thriller, Blow Up questions the maxim that the camera never lies and sets out into a virtually abstract examination of subjectivity and perception. Carlo Di Palma's camerwork leavens the brew, while the film's finale—a ballless tennis match—became a reference point of the 60's cinema. The Hong Kong Arts Centre VHS: Amazon.com DVD Review: SlantMagazine.com Soundtrack CD: Amazon.com Back to Archive "The photographer in Blow Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part of the meaning of Blow Up" —On Blow Up