STENDALÌ: STILL THEY TOLL
Italy, 1960
Original title: Stendalì (suonano ancora)
Director: Cecilia Mangini. Screenplay: Cecilia Mangini, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Giuseppe De Mitri. Editor: Renato May. Music: Egisto Macchi. Production: Vette Film Italia Digibeta. Length: 11’.
Format: File H264. Source and under licence from Cineteca di Bologna.
Original version. Subtitles: English.
“Stendalì” is a unique documentation of the ancient funeral weeping in the Grika language of Salento, a peasant funeral lament, a ritual weeping that has ancient roots and origins and it survived until the early 60s.
As for the other works “Pasolini intervened on the edited documentary: he used an 1870 translation from the Salento Greek of the funerary ritual song, but he gave it a new, moving look”.(Cecilia Mangini)
Sunday 10 April 2022, h. 8:45 pm
Wednesday 20th April 2022, h. 10:45 pm
Friday 29th April 2022, h. 9:45 pm
