Now Instant and The Film Desk present the LA launch of That Bowling Alley On The Tiber: Tales of a Director.

Entry is free and will include access to the cinema where a collection of Antonioni's early short films (Gente del Po (1943), Nettezza Urbana (1948), and Sette Canne, un Vestito (1948) will be running on loop.

“I’m a director who writes, not a writer.”—Michelangelo Antonioni

Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.