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Abstract: This issue of Framework constellates three kinds of small-scale film cultural activism and the impact that each has in the world, from production through exhibition and reception. The opening section comprises the dossier, "Pier Paolo Pasolini's Centenary Retrospective: Film Culture in Action," guest edited by scholar Jane Mills. It is complemented by Sima Kokotović's essay, "Archival Film Practice Behind Off Frame: Unravelling Cinematic Solidarities in the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation," on Mohanad Yaqubi's documentary Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory (PS/QA/FR/LB, 2016), and an interview with Afro-Argentinian filmmaker and producer Wisny Dorce, "Reclaiming Identity: The Cinematic Activist Journey of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ritz Cinema's poster for the Pasolini retrospective.Toward the end of 2022, Sydney cinephiles celebrated Pier Paolo Pasolini's centenary at a retrospective of most of his feature films, held across nine successive Sunday afternoons. The program was jointly organized by several local institutions. The Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney (IIC), financed the retrospective; the Ritz Cinema exhibited the films; and Cinema Reborn, a voluntary organization of cinephiles that works year-round to bring restored films to the big screen as the filmmakers had originally intended, acted as the convenor. The titles were restored at the L'Immagine Ritrovato laboratory in Bologna (thanks to the support of the Hobson/Lucas Family ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ignoring widespread cinematic convention, Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film begins not with an establishing shot but with an epigraph that presages death from Dante's Divina Commedia/The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321):God's angel took me, and he from Hell cried: "Oh you from Heaven, why do you rob me' You are carrying off with you this man's eternal part for a little tear that takes him from me."2The first live-action shot also dispenses with an establishing shot: next to a bunch of flowers, a man, almost toothless, grins at us, a character who isn't even the main protagonist. Death and non-professional actors with bad teeth will figure in many of Pasolini's films. They're not—or not only—part of the films' ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (IT, 1962) was first screened at the 1962 Venice Film Festival, two years after the release of La Dolce Vita (IT/FR, 1960), Federico Fellini's famous portrayal of the decadence of modernizing postwar Italy. If Fellini's film articulated the glamour and contradictions of Italy's economic boom, Pasolini's portrayed the underside of Rome's urban expansion and the underworld of the city's poorest neighborhoods of the same period.Typical of Pasolini's life and works, Mamma Roma scandalized its audiences. The film was attacked by both right-wing and left-wing political parties and the Church. It was also accused of offending common moral sense and containing obscene content, contrary to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: My fascination with the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini stems in large part from the filmmaker's dualistic approach to the film image. Contrary to movements in Italian cinema that wished to divorce the moving image from prior art forms, or at least render the art of moving images distinct from other art forms (Italian neorealism comes to mind), Pasolini engaged the medium of film images from the point of view of literature and, more precisely, poetry. The poetics of cinema, for Pasolini, inculcated a poetics of literary form and, in perhaps a more challenging and provocative semiotic move, a poetics of literary thought.1 There were distinctions but also essential interactions and synergies.In the following short ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Uccellacci e uccellini/The Hawks and the Sparrows (IT, 1966) was Pasolini's fourth narrative feature film and said by the director to be, if not his favorite, then his "most pure" cinematic work.1 It was, he suggests, the first of his films to be a product of cinematographic (rather than figurative) culture.2As several contributors to this dossier note, the early and mid-1960s, when Pasolini started making films, was a period of great social, cultural, and political change in both Italy and beyond—to which there are many references seeded throughout this film. Some of these are more legible to a contemporary English-speaking audience than others—and I must admit that there was certainly much in this often ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At first glance, it seems strange that Pasolini's fifth narrative feature is, still to this day, the only really noteworthy cinematic adaptation of Sophocles's legendary play, Oedipus Rex. The taboo nature of the subject, and the uncomfortable biographical speculation that would likely follow the director of any such adaptation, is perhaps one reason for this.1But if Pasolini had any reservations, he warded them off with a pretty simple strategy, stating in numerous interviews that this is an autobiographical film—a reflection of his deep love for his mother, Susanna, but more importantly, a way of processing his feelings for his fascism-supporting, infantry officer father, Carlo Alberto. Pasolini explained:In ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Almost 55 years after its release, Teorema (IT, 1968) remains a fascinating, slippery film. The more I try to pin it down, the more elusive it becomes. It's a work that not only draws attention to its structure but also resists or evades its constraints. The director told a French television interviewer that it was "a parable, or, if you prefer, an enigma," a characterization that captures the film's distinctive mixture of transparency and ambiguity.1The setup appears simple enough. At the center of Teorema—the Italian word for "theorem," a title with the implication of a proposition that can be proved—is a prosperous bourgeois Milanese family, an industrialist husband, wife, son, and daughter, with a maid in ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The light of the future doesn't cease for even an instant to wound us.When Pier Paolo Pasolini made his seventh feature film, Porcile (IT, 1969), he was already a significant and challenging presence in Italian cultural and political life. A prolific poet, writer, and essayist, he was a complex person who was outspoken and mercurial. There was a strong sense of discontentment, and with it, detachment, that permeated his films throughout the late sixties when his disdain for the bourgeoisie and its cult of consumption became more directly represented in his films. Throughout Porcile Pasolini is critical of a Europe whose revolutionary spirit he saw as stillborn; the student and worker protest known as May '68 was ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Pasolini's adaptation of Euripides's fifth-century BCE tragedy, Medea (IT/FR/ FDR, 1969) was, remarkably, his eighth feature-length drama film in as many years. Like many of his films, I find watching Medea to be a sensorially explosive experience. There is so much more to this film than I can unpack here, but I'd like to speak about something that I think is key to this explosivity—Pasolini's masterful and deeply evocative treatment of color and texture.Greek myths seldom come simple, but in brief, the film centers on the character of Medea (played by the famed opera singer Maria Callas), a powerful princess and sorceress from the Kingdom of Colchis, and the Greek Jason (Italian triple-jump Olympic medalist ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: We were unable to include Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" films in our retrospective because they were screening in the Italian Film Festival at another Sydney cinema. Not wanting to exclude any of his drama features from this dossier, we invited writers to write short articles for these films.For the first film of the trilogy, The Decameron (IT/FR/FRG, 1971), we adopted a slightly different approach than that of the others. I had been delighted to see the highly esteemed documentary filmmaker Trevor Graham at the screenings each Sunday afternoon. I was also intrigued—partly, I admit, because I had mentally pigeon-holed him in the world of a documentary approach to reality rather than Pasolini's feature film approach. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Why create a work of art, when dreaming about it is so much sweeter'"Pasolini—poet, novelist, painter, playwright, polemicist, linguist, critic, Marxist, journalist, actor, activist, scriptwriter (he collaborated on Federico Fellini's film Le notti di Cabiria/ Nights of Cabiria [IT, FR, 1957] and on the screenplays for several other directors), and homosexual—was one of the twentieth century's great auteur film directors. He is widely considered the most important artist and intellectual in Italy after World War II. Allora (so), this Queer (I am going to use this contemporary word that includes homosexuality—perhaps Pasolini, if he were alive today, would embrace it, too') and controversial artist is well-placed ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It is sometimes said that the Queer community lost a generation. This is usually in reference to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but there continue to be many reasons why an LGBTQ+ person might not live past 40: suicide, addiction-related diseases, and hate crimes. Though it is unlikely Pier Paolo Pasolini would have lived to 2022 and reached 100, the world lost one of its leading left-wing intellectuals when he was assassinated. The details surrounding his death are murky and littered with conspiracy theories, but it is known to have been a brutal end, and there is an undeniable factor of homophobia in the perpetrator's motivations.Because of Pasolini's known homosexuality, and his often openly outrageous lifestyle in a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: There's a scene at the beginning of Pasolini's I racconti di Canterbury/The Canterbury Tales (IT, 1972) where a shirtless man with long, flowing blond hair wrestles in a ring with another for the amusement of marketgoers in an English country town in the 1300s. It's a far cry from the typical images associated with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (originally Tales of Caunterbury) written 1387–1400. For one thing, it looks modern. For a film made in 1972, this could be a precursor to the wrestling entertainment that was big in 1990s American culture.But this is no ordinary retelling of these medieval tales. In the hands of Pasolini, they become stories of enjoyment and celebration, feasts, frolics, and, yes ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When Pier Paolo Pasolini chose The Thousand and One Nights for the final part of his "Trilogy of Life," he reveled in the folkloric nature of stories that belong to a much simpler world than the present. It was an opportunity to transport the viewer to a time and place where Pasolini could put aside his habitual critiques of Church and State.The anthology we know as The Thousand and One Nights has its origins in India or Persia but came together as a manuscript in the Islamic Golden Age, between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The book has been known as The Arabian Nights in English ever since the first English-language version of The Arabian Nights' Entertainment (c. 1706–1721). Anonymously authored ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How do you see this film's position in the framework of your opera omnia'It is the first time I am making a film about the modern world.1Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma/Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (IT/FR, 1975) is unwatchable. But that is exactly why we must watch it. Pasolini once said that he set out to make movies that were "inconsumable":I told myself: I have to react and make products that are as inconsumable as possible. I know it's utopian, because everything ends up being consumed. At the same time, I know that there is something inconsumable in art, and we need to stress the inconsumable quality of art. Therefore, with all my forces, I will try to produce difficult and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Italian Cultural Institute, 4/125 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 6:00 pm, Friday, 4 NovemberWelcome to our roundtable discussion, which, in a fit of alliteration, we've named "Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poetry, Politics, and Provocation." I do know there are some people in the audience who have not yet seen a Pasolini film, so I welcome the Pasolini virgins with us this evening. In fact, a special welcome to you. I imagine you're here because you're curious, which is fine, because those of us who already know, and perhaps love, Pasolini's films and writings are also curious—there's always so much more to learn about this extraordinary filmmaker.Pasolini is so much more than just a filmmaker. He was also a novelist, a poet, an ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The flesh lodges a reading regime and contains a powerful way of seeing, through invisible eyes.Everyone knows that Pier Paolo Pasolini was a homo, but no one knows how to talk about it. It is avoided or acknowledged before moving on to more serious, less vulgar things—poetry, cinema, reality. The proper name Pasolini often appears in a list alongside Cocteau, Genet, Rimbaud—and let's also add Pasolini fan Bruce LaBruce—as writers, artists, and filmmakers who all stand in for the "amoral 'criminal' expression of desire."2 Pasolini's sexual notoriety, his love of young rough trade, further amplified by lurid rumors of paid communal sexual practices, aka circle jerks, was perversely sanctified by his killing, its ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As it toured the global film festival circuit throughout 2016–17, Mohanad Yaqubi's Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory (PS/QA/FR/LB, 2016) brought to the limelight a narrative about the Palestinian liberation struggle in the period of the 1960s and 1970s. The film is an archival documentary composed of around 20 films made by filmmakers worldwide. Whether directed by Palestinians, Algerian migrants living in France, Soviet documentarists, or Iraqi and German filmmakers who traveled and took part in the struggles, these films stand as indices of the Palestinian fight for freedom's international dimension. In his approach to such a body of films, Yaqubi explored a constitutive role of image making for both ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How does cinema support Argentina in its journey to raise awareness of its Black identity' For the past twenty years, Afro-Argentinian cinema has been engaging the cultural legacy of the slave trade and contemporary challenges related to internal migration while reflecting on the traditional representation of the role of Afro-descendant communities in the nation-building process of the country. Although numerous Afro-Argentinian social collectives are working tirelessly to address systemic racism in Argentina and raise awareness of its multiracial identity, Afro-descendant filmmakers still struggle with proper access to funding and distribution. The representation of Afro-Argentinian filmmakers in the mainstream ... Read More PubDate: 2023-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
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