He is most known for his films, but the scale of the work by film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922-Ostia, 1975) goes beyond that. His work as a poet and essayist and his political engagement marked the career of a man who is, in the words of Susan Sontag “indisputably, the most remarkable figure to have emerged in Italian arts and letters since the Second World War”.
The exhibition La voz de Pasolini. Primeros apuntes de un ensayista cinematográfico (Pasolini’s Voice. First Notes from a Film Essayist) focuses on two of his most renowned works: Mamma Roma (1962) and La Rabbia (1963). It has been done with the collaboration of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Research Centre and Archive and, especially, of filmmaker, critic, and film historian Carlo di Carlo, who worked as assistant director on both films. The Fundación Luis Seoane will host pieces and a variety of materials that help to understand Pasolini’s figure as a essayist and, especially, as a pioneer of film essay and a theorist of the cinema of poetry, as he called it. Through the audio recordings of the artist’s working diaries from Mamma Roma –many have never been exhibited before–, handwritten originals, drawings, shooting schedules, scripts and, in ther own section, the editing notes for La Rabbia, La voz de Pasolini gives visitors a multifaceted view of a man who was controversial but who, above all, was committed to the creative process of his own work.
Artistas: Mario Dondero, Angelo Novi and Pier Paolo Pasolini
