Initially, this filmed conversation between writer Alissa Bennett and Abel Ferrara sounds like a very long pitch. Since the early 1990s, Ferrara has nurtured a project to film Pasolini’s last days.
He is intrigued by the paradoxes of a man who lived with his mother, yet went out hunting for young boys every night. In his eyes, Pasolini was both a poet and a prophet - predicting Berlusconi, and scripting his own death scene.
Ferrara’s imagination becomes a prism through which we explore the complexity of Pasolini’s persona and the equally creative and self-destructive Zoë Lund, the actress who starred in Ms. 45, and was the co-author of Bad Lieutenant.
The conversation with writer Alissa Bennett is captured using two cameras, and Ruilova beautifully emulates Ferrara’s compulsive body language through her elliptic and repetitive editing.
- Director
- Aïda Ruilova
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 43'
- Medium
- HDcam
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Monica Hampton
- Sales
- Aïda Ruilova
- Screenplay
- Aïda Ruilova, Alissa Bennett
- Cinematography
- Aïda Ruilova, Arthur Jafa
- Editor
- Aïda Ruilova
- Sound Design
- Paul Holly
- Website
- http://www.aidaruilova.com