Michelangelo Antonioni's “Red Desert”: A Study on the Characteristics of Frames, Short, Montage as Signs of Time-Image

Abstract

Based on Deleuze's film image theory, this paper analyzes Michelangelo Antonioni's film “Red Desert” and analyzes the independent style of frame, short, and montage used by Antonioni in the film “Red Desert”. The image in the frame is regarded as a readable symbol and the meanings are read to enhance the aesthetic style. The appearance of time-image through static shorts and fragmented montage is considered. Deleuze directs ‘any-space-whatever’ with Antonioni's characteristic film image. These elements of his film are defined as the characteristics of modern films that presuppose the emergence of time-image. By studying the narrative method of the film “Red Desert” and the meaning of the film language, renew the interpretation of the existing film and enhance the aesthetic position of the film.