‘À la recherche du silence’. The Arid Words in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Existential Trilogy”

Authors

  • Giuseppe Mattia Independent researcher

Keywords:

Michelangelo Antonioni, existential trilogy, silence, screenplays, music

Abstract

Through the comparative analysis of heterogeneous sources related to L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), and L’eclisse (1962), this study will highlight the principal strategies employed by Michelangelo Antonioni and his collaborators to pare down dialogues for an exaltation of the metonymic function of objects, physical and moral voids, and, most importantly, silences, with the aim of achieving essentiality in the final cinematic rendering.

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Author Biography

Giuseppe Mattia, Independent researcher

PhD in History of the Arts and Performing Arts from the University of Florence with a research project on Tonino Guerra as a screenwriter. Winner of the 2023 “Davide Turconi” Award for the best doctoral thesis, granted by the international jury of the Italian Association for Cinema History Research (AIRSC). Currently, he is an adjunct lecturer (PEMM-01/B) at the Universities of Basilicata and Salerno and teaches Audiovisual Disciplines at the Liceo artistico di Porta Romana in Florence. He has served as a selector, juror, and jury coordinator in various Italian film festivals. Over the years, he has gained experience in film education at high schools, master’s programs, state institutes of higher education, and universities, participating as a speaker in international film studies conferences and publishing essays and reviews in books, conference proceedings, and scientific journals such as La valle dell’Eden, Folia Litteraria Polonica, and Quaderni del CSCI.

Published

2025-12-15

How to Cite

Mattia, G. (2025). ‘À la recherche du silence’. The Arid Words in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Existential Trilogy”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (9), 179–197. Retrieved from https://serena.sharepress.it/index.php/sigma/article/view/13023

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