Vernissage – Apri gli occhi! / Ouvre les yeux! : Pasolini à voix haute
This year, Pier Paolo Pasolini would have been 100 years old. From his first writings in his youth to his early death in 1975, he has traced a path and a body of work - cinematographic, literary, essayistic - that has never ceased to nourish reflection, fuel debate and inspire artists and thinkers over the decades. As part of the PPP / RRR: Pier Paolo Pasolini / Riprese Reprises Retakes academic colloquium on Pasolini's contemporary legacy, scheduled to take place in Montreal and Ottawa at the end of September, we pay tribute to the filmmaker by highlighting his impact on the present. In the form of a series of double programs, this cycle proposes to put some of his major films in dialogue with those of contemporary filmmakers, in the presence of some of them, researchers or special guests.
For more information on the PPP / RRR: Pier Paolo Pasolini / Riprese Reprises Retakes conference, visit labdoc.uqam.ca
You are invited to the opening of this work significantly titled OPEN YOUR EYES. Pasolini Out Loud. Spanghero challenges Gideon Bachmann's long conversations with Pasolini (ten hours preserved by Cinemazero in Pordenone, Italy). The artist worked by extracting from the mass of tapes he meticulously listened to a single, unique phrase taken from a recording from backstage of a tremendous, perfect, current and extremely tormented film: Salò or the 120 days of Sodom.
