Pier Paolo Pasolini: Renaissance Man

Since his violent death in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but less known as a poet, journalist, critic and activist outside his native Italy. This week, Juliet talks to Italian author Daniela Cascella about Pasolini’s varied artistic practice, the persecution he suffered as an outspoken leftist and openly gay man, and the context of post-fascist, post-war Italy. SELECTED REFERENCES WORKS BY PASOLINI Articles ‘I Know’ (1974) - https://overland.org.au/2012/03/what-is-this-coup-detat-i-know/ Novels Hustlers (1955) A Violent Life (1959) Petrolio (1992) – http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/reviews/970323.23eberstt.html Films Accattone (1961) La Ricotta (1962) – http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMurphy.html The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) – https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n06/michael-wood/at-the-movies Love Meetings (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Meetings Theorem (1968) Medea (1969) Porcile (Pigsty, 1969) The Decameron (1971) The Canterbury Tales (1972) Arabian Nights (1974) Salò: 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-lost-pasolini-interview Poems ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’ (1954) – https://gramsciintheworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gramscis-ashes.pdf ‘The PCI to Young People’ (1968) – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/pier-paolo-pasolini-pci-communist-party Bernardo Bertolucci Maria Callas ITALO CALVINO, Invisible Cities (1973) – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-letters-of-italo-calvino-day-v DANIELA CASCELLA, ‘Faint Signals’ - https://minorliteratures.com/2018/09/07/faint-signals-of-the-imaginal-and-the-aural-of-speaking-with-the-dead-and-their-books-for-impossible-writing-daniela-cascella/ Ernesto de Martino – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_de_Martino MARQUIS DE SADE, 120 Days of Sodom (1785) – https://www.odaha.com/sites/default/files/120_days_of_sodom.pdf FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Demons (1872) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel) Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971) – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/death-venice-arthouse DARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKfwC70YZI Fuori! (Turin gay collective) Diamanda Galás, ‘Supplica a mia madre’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4D3Gxk_jk André Gide Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Jacques Lacan Roberto Longhi – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Longhi La Lotta Continua (publication) - https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/lotta-continua MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique – https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/mario-mieli-keep-treasure-in-my-arse Marianne Moore Alberto Moravia Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783 Ezra Pound – http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/pier_paolo_pasolini_talks_and_reads_poetry_with_ezra_pound_1967_.html Stefano Rodotà – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Rodotà RoGoPaG (various directors, 1963) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056171 Roberto Rossellini Jean-Paul Sartre August Strindberg Giovanni Tiso – https://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com Lars von Trier Wu Ming Foundation – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2719-the-police-vs-pasolini-pasolini-vs-the-police