The Municipality of Bologna and the Cineteca Foundation celebrate Pier Paolo Pasolini 40 years after his death, with a 360 degree project on the artist, from poems, to books, from films, to essays. The tribute to the intellectual, by the city where he was born, has the title “More modern than any modern. Pasolini in Bologna" and the highlight of a rich program will be "Officina Pier Paolo Pasolini", an exhibition dedicated to his complex aesthetic and cultural universe, created by the Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with the Bologna Museums Institution and set up at the MAMbo - Museo of Modern Art in Bologna, from December 2015 to March 2016.
Meanwhile it begins today, at the Venice Film Festival, with the screening of the restored film "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom"The film will then return to Bologna, where it will be presented in its national premiere on November 2, as part of a review of the director's work.
In the coming days, other appointments will pave the way for the entire programme: On 12 and 13 September, the Zeta Archive will present, at Villa Aldini in Bologna, where some exteriors of Salò were shot, "Pilade/Parlamento", the fourth and last episode of the "Pilade/Pasolini" project, one of the six tragedies he wrote between 1966 and 1970. The show will be held at sunset (19 pm) and will be at free admission (limited places - booking required online only www.archiviozeta.eu).
September 15th, at the Church of San Mattia, Danza Urbana will stage the first study of “Bologna – The Trilogy of Life”, the two-year project that Marcos Morau and the Spanish company La Veronal dedicate to the city of Bologna and to Pier Paolo Pasolini. In this work, Morau investigates the topicality of Pasolini's thought through the reinterpretation of the films "The Decameron", "The Canterbury Tales" and "The Flower of the Arabian Nights" which make up the "Trilogy of Pasolini's life". Info and reservations www.danzaurbana.it
Since September, finally, they are pre-sales open for "Pasolini, the meeting", concert/show by Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, organized by Covo Club, scheduled for 1st October at the Teatro dell'Antoniano. It is a show of drawings, music and words, a journey inspired by the biography of Pasolini, where the cartoonist, singer and musician Davide Toffolo draws his vision live, with brushes and colours, and projects it onto the screen, accompanied by a live sound environment that arises from the themes of the trio's songs and from audio recordings of Pasolini's own voice. Pre-sales on the vivaticket circuit http://www.vivaticket.it/ (ticket
single 15 euros + dp.)
