PASOLINI’S BODIES AND PLACES • MICHELE MANCINI & GIUSEPPE PERRELLA

PASOLINI’S BODIES AND PLACES • Edited by Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella • 2018 Edition Patrick Frey 640 pgs • English edition by Benedikt Reichenbach • Michele Mancini & Giuseppe Perrella translated by Ann Goldstein & Jobst Grapow • Pier Paolo Pasolini translated by Stephen Sartarelli • PVP 75€ • Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com • CP-MC◼︎

“As the title says, the theme of this film is the Third World, and specifically India, Black Africa, the Arab countries, South America, and the ghettos of the United States.”

NOTES FOR A POEM ON THE THIRD WORLD, Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The initial title for CORPI E LUOGHI was PASOLINI THE ANTHROPOLOGIST. The many facets in which the authors present «the anthropologist director» challenge any single definitions what that is. Again, every attempt at synthesis or completion is foreclosed. It is an «anthropological map arising from a inexhaustible series of questions about the Present», where the objective reality - the beliefs and relationships in which we are entangled - is never fully identical with thought or concept, where meaning is made as you move along. Don’t look back.“

SPEAKING VISUALY, Benedikt Reichenbach

“This collection of unpublished texts, written in the midst of filming, without the pressure of a deadline, is intended to restore to cinema that “murky adventure” which is the preparation of a film. This phase is particularly important in PPP’s movies, because they are all based on a rigorous plan, whose aim is a fiction that is «directly» connected to the anthropological and ethnic particularities, to the bodily, perceptive, and economic relationships which are part of findings locations and which are developed on set. The journeys Pasolini made searching for locations for his films explore the map of the Third World.“

BODIES AND PLACES, Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella