pasolini – fragmsite

http://www.academia.edu/3723511/Paolo_Lago_Pasolini_lombra_corsara_di_Menippo

La linea culturale menippea, attraverso cui Paolo Lago in “L’ombra corsara di Menippo” ripercorre l’intera opera di Pasolini (e nella seconda parte quella di Arbasino e Fellini) è stata dettagliatamente analizzata da Michail Bachtin nel suo libro su Dostoevskij (cap. IV). Contrapposta in origine come genere dialogico al dialogo socratico, la satira menippea introduce un elemento sperimentale, di rottura e di gioco, nel discorso filosofico-letterario. Se la verità è sempre provocatoria, tale deve apparire anche nella forma. Luciano, Rabelais, Swift, Voltaire, sono i nomi chiave di questa linea menippea di “sperimentazione fantastica”…

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http://www.ubu.com/film/pasolini_palestine.html

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Italy 1965, 35mm, b/w, 52 min.

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of filming his biblical epic The Gospel According to Matthew in its approximate historical locations. Edited by The GospelÔs producer for potential funders and distributors, Seeking Locations in Palestine features semi-improvised commentary from Pasolini as its only soundtrack. As we travel from village to village, we listen to PasoliniÕs idiosyncratic musings on the teachings of Christ and witness his increasing disappointment with the people and landscapes he sees before him. Israel, he laments, is much too modern. The Palestinians, much too wretched; it would be impossible to believe the teachings of Jesus had reached these faces. The Gospel According to Matthew was ultimately filmed in Southern Italy. Mel Gibson would use some of the same locations forty years later for The Passion of the Christ.

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