LOS OLVIDADOS, Mexico, 1950
LOS OLVIDADOS Mexico, 1950 Director: Luis Buñuel. Plot and script: Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel. Director of photography: Gabriel Figueroa. Editing: Carlos Savage. Set design: Edward Fitzgerald. Music: Gustavo Pittaluga. Interpreters and characters: Estela Inda (Marta), Alfonso Mejía (Pedro), Miguel Inclán (don Carmelo), Roberto Cobo (‘El Jaibo’), Alma Delia Fuentes (Meche), Efraín Arauz (‘El Cacarizo’), Mario […]
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SALÒ OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOMA, ItalyFrance, 1975
SALÒ OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOMA Italy France, 1975 Original title: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, from the novel The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.Screenplay collaborator: Sergio Citti. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Camera operators: Carlo Tafani, Emilio Bestetti. First assistant shooting: Sandro […]
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BACKSTAGE SUL SET DI SALÒ
BACKSTAGE SUL SET DI SALÒ(Backstage on the Salò Set) Italy, 1975 Length: 59’Format: mp4 digital transfer. Source: Centro Studi – Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini, under licence from Cinemazero. Original version. Filmed by journalist and documentary-maker Gideon Bachmann on the set of Pasolini’s last film, shot as he directs the actors or talks to assistants such […]
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AN ANDALUSIAN DOG, France, 1929
AN ANDALUSIAN DOG France, 1929 Original Title::Un Chien Andalou Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Director of Photography: Albert Duverger. Editor: Luis Buñuel. Set Design: Pierre Schildknecht. Cast and Characters: Luis Buñuel (man with the razor), Pierre Batcheff (the cyclist/man), Simone Mareuil (the girl), Jaime Miravilles, Marval (two priests), Fano Messan (androgynous woman), Robert Hommet (man […]
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THE AGE OF GOLD
THE AGE OF GOLD France, 1930 Original title: L’Âge d’Or Story and Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Director of Photography: Albert Duverger. Editor: Luis Buñuel. Screenplay: Pierre Schildknecht. Music: Georges Van Parys. Cast and Characters: Lya Lys (the woman), Gaston Modot (the man), Max Ernst (bandit leader), Pierre Prévert (Péman, the bandit), Caridad de Laberdesque […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth
The Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini The word that Pier Paolo Pasolini always used when referring to his films was “reality”: “Cinema has forced me to work at the level of reality, “inside” reality: when I make a film I am always inside a reality, among the trees, among the people (…); there isn’t a […]
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1. THE CINEMA OF CRUELTY
Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth1. The Cinema of Cruelty. (2-9 April, 2022) Following the line of André Bazin, he unscrupulously tackles the representation of instinctive, carnal and visceral impulses, even in a dreamlike key. The evocative and functional definition was invented by Truffaut by […]
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What are we talking about when we talk about violence against women? Reflections on a feminist alphabet – International Women’s Day 2022
In collaboration with the General Consulate of Italy in Melbourne, on the occasion of 8 March, a reflection on the intellectual, social and political position of women and men, on sexism, authoritarianism, violence and its opposite. Daniela Brogi, Maria Nadotti, Francesca Rigotti and Isabella Pasqualetto converse starting from a small feminist alphabet of terms that are […]
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The Legionnaire
There’s a battle raging in Rome right now. Thousands of desperate people are forced to occupy empty buildings in order to have a roof over their heads. The police are entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the law and stopping this from happening. Daniel, born in Rome of African parents, grew up in an occupied […]
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Gomorrah (New Edition)
Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the Province of Caserta, between the cities of Aversa and Casal di Principe, have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the system, the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think […]
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