Since his violent death in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but less known as a poet, journalist, critic and activist outside his native Italy. This week, Juliet talks to Italian author Daniela Cascella about Pasolini’s varied artistic practice, the persecution he suffered as an outspoken leftist and openly gay man, and the context of post-fascist, post-war Italy.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY PASOLINI
Articles
‘I Know’ (1974) - https://overland.org.au/2012/03/what-is-this-coup-detat-i-know/
Novels
Hustlers (1955)
A Violent Life (1959)
Petrolio (1992) – http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/reviews/970323.23eberstt.html
Films
Accattone (1961)
La Ricotta (1962) – http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMurphy.html
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) – https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n06/michael-wood/at-the-movies
Love Meetings (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Meetings
Theorem (1968)
Medea (1969)
Porcile (Pigsty, 1969)
The Decameron (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Arabian Nights (1974)
Salò: 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-lost-pasolini-interview
Poems
‘Gramsci’s Ashes’ (1954) – https://gramsciintheworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gramscis-ashes.pdf
‘The PCI to Young People’ (1968) – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/pier-paolo-pasolini-pci-communist-party
Bernardo Bertolucci
Maria Callas
ITALO CALVINO, Invisible Cities (1973) – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-letters-of-italo-calvino-day-v
DANIELA CASCELLA, ‘Faint Signals’ - https://minorliteratures.com/2018/09/07/faint-signals-of-the-imaginal-and-the-aural-of-speaking-with-the-dead-and-their-books-for-impossible-writing-daniela-cascella/
Ernesto de Martino – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_de_Martino
MARQUIS DE SADE, 120 Days of Sodom (1785) – https://www.odaha.com/sites/default/files/120_days_of_sodom.pdf
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Demons (1872) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel)
Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971) – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/death-venice-arthouse
DARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKfwC70YZI
Fuori! (Turin gay collective)
Diamanda Galás, ‘Supplica a mia madre’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4D3Gxk_jk
André Gide
Jean-Luc Godard
Ugo Gregoretti
Jacques Lacan
Roberto Longhi – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Longhi
La Lotta Continua (publication) - https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/lotta-continua
MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique – https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/mario-mieli-keep-treasure-in-my-arse
Marianne Moore
Alberto Moravia
Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783
Ezra Pound – http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/pier_paolo_pasolini_talks_and_reads_poetry_with_ezra_pound_1967_.html
Stefano Rodotà – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Rodotà
RoGoPaG (various directors, 1963) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056171
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Paul Sartre
August Strindberg
Giovanni Tiso – https://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com
Lars von Trier
Wu Ming Foundation – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2719-the-police-vs-pasolini-pasolini-vs-the-police
