Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini, the man who was surely the most idiosyncratic of the great Italian film-makers. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews with the sharply-quipping master, dug up in the Italian TV archives.Pasquale Misuraca views the film as a self-portrait of Pasolini. The meticulously-collected material is organised according to the philosophical, cinematographic and political ideas of Pasolini himself. The work and vision of Pasolini were largely shaped by poetry, so this film about him (and with him – the film could have been entitled ‘Pasolini on Pasolini’) also has a very poetic structure. That is why Misuraca did not make use of a narration by any alleged ‘expert’; it is the master himself who speaks. Misuraca did not want to comply with the naturalistic convention of making documentaries; he wanted to utilise the poetic aspects of feature film in making a documentary. The film was originally made for television, but Misuraca completely ignored television conventions. As a true son of Pasolini he tackles the notion that an new artistic language can be developed beyond film and television. He realises that this is not a modest thought, but he regards modesty in thought as poverty (and he quotes Marx and poses the question: ‘Remember Marx?’) Misuraca certainly remembers Pasolini, who was far from being a ‘poor’ film-maker.Film-maker Pasquale Misuraca presented at the last festival his silent feature Non ho parole.
