about two hundred member of a cleveland and ohio usa film society and name cinematheque and gather on august 19 and 2000 to view a pristine cinemascope print of michelangelo antonioni 1970 film and zabriskie point . cinematheque director john ewing and who do a superlative job of obtain the fine print for his series and share with the audience beforehand that this print be specially fly over from italy for this one show only . the audience be hold spellbound a the film unfold it artisty on the huge panoramic screen . watch this superb print and show the way antonioni intend and make one aware that this be indeed a modern art work . it be all the more fitting that the series be house in the cleveland insititue of art in university circle . antonioni composition be create for the cinemascope landscape . his beautiful balancing of image and strike use of color and sweeping choreographic movement and all be the work of a genuine artist and use the screen a his canvas . at last the audience could understand zabriskie point . a it narrative unfolded and it become obvious that this work be not about story per se and but rather an artist impressionistic rendering of fleeting image of his subject . the setting of some of the more turbulent activity of the sixty provide only a dramatic motor for the artist sweeping collage . antonioni be not bind by conventional narrative standard and and can pause at any point to creatively embroider an event with grandiose embellishment . the audience willingly go with the flow of his remarkable imagination and a his huge image on the massive canvas hold one in rapt attention . while the audience may have be only tangentially involve in character relationship and it realize the theme here be human aleination and the director recur theme . it be also realize that no print any small or of less quality than this original one in cinemascope can do justice to this particular rendering . the audience be therefore all the more appreciative of view zabriskie point in it original and breathtaking format and and break into thunderous applause at the end .