THE WALLS OF SANA’A
Italy, 1971-1974
Original title: Le mura di Sana’a
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay and narrator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Editor: Tatiana Casini Morigi. Production: Rosima Amstalt (Roma). Length: 13’.
Format: DVD. Under licence from Minerva Pictures.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Documentary on the capital of Yemen, an extraordinary artistic heritage that runs the risk of being irreparably erased by reckless modern urban development: an appeal to Unesco.
“I was too keen on shooting this document. It may be a matter of a professional deformation, but I felt Sana’a’s problems as my own. The disfigurement, which like a leprosy is invading her, hurt me with pain, anger, a sense of helplessness and at the same time a feverish desire to do something, from which I was peremptorily compelled to film.” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Monday 02 May 2022, h. 9:00 pm
