This Italian cultural event will focus on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial and anti-conformist cinema and on what has been called the ‘myth of Pasolini’.
Our first guest speaker will focus on Pasolini as a critic of modernity, intended as a discourse dominated by an instrumental type of rationality that resolves the relationship between subject and other through equivalences and (capitalist) valorization. By looking at some recurrent aspects of Pasolini's work, Vighi will explore the role of such notions as entropy, perversion and disorder.
Our second guest speaker will discuss what Pasolini has come to represent since his untimely death. Indeed, what function does his ‘myth’ serve for those who invoke or perpetuate it? O’Leary will analyse the status of Pasolini in Italian and American cinema, considering films by Nanni Moretti (Dear Diary, 1993), Marco Tullio Giordana (Who Killed Pasolini, 1995), and Abel Ferrara (Pasolini, 2015). He will also interrogate the deployment of Pasolini to signify ‘political commitment’ in academic and cultural discourse.
This event has been organised by Dr Ambra Moroncini (SCLS) and Miss Roberta Giammaria from the Italian Society.
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