Pasolini. Roma

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) is considered to be one of the major ‘poetic realists’ of European cinema in the second half of the 20th century. On exhibition are numerous documents, letters, photos, drawings, newspapers, and film installations of the ambivalent Pasolini – the ‘melancholic Narcissus’ of early lyric poetry, the unorthodox Marxist of the 1950s and 1960s as well as the critic of society and provocateur of the church, who with his last and still today controversial film 120 Days of Sodom brought his cinematographic work to a dramatic conclusion. The writings of Pasolini are also on display. He is considered to be an outstanding European intellectual who continued the radically enlightening and self-critical search for reality in the language of film. Pasolini, who came from a deprived background, processed the love, passion, and social situation in his country in his works; he saw a ‘revolutionary counter force’ in the ‘ordinary people’ similar to that of the student revolts of 1968.