Head and Hands: My Black Angel

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.