PASOLINI undici#ventidue

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The project PASOLINI undici#ventidue (‘eleven#twenty-two’ – 11 sites in Casarsa from the poetry and myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini and 11 young poets who are responding to the myth and poetry of their own important places) consists of a series of videos specially made by the Fondazione Pordenonelegge.it – which is collaborating for the three-year period 2021-2023 with the artistic direction of the Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini in Casarsa della Delizia – for italiana.esteri.it and the network of Italian Cultural Institutes for the anniversary of the poet’s birth.

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For the 100th anniversary of his birth (1922-2022), the Pordenonelegge.it Foundation, which is responsible for the Libro con gli Autori festival to which it lends its name, has organized a video project dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini for the Farnesina, curated by the poet and writer Gian Mario Villalta, director of the PNL.

PASOLINI undici#ventidue: a poetic micro-history of PPP divided into 11 videos, featuring two main characters in each clip (Pasolini himself and a young new voice in Italian poetry), thus arriving at the symbolic number of 22.

The first part of each video presents an iconic passage from the work of the early Pasolini , set in his native surroundings, and rendered in a visual way. The second parts feature 11 young poets who through their poems each enter into a conversation with Pasolini’s work and with a place in Italy which is close to their own heart, whether by birth or by choice: Beatrice Achille, Simone Burratti, Clery Celeste, Maddalena Lotter, Franca Mancinelli, Giuseppe Nava, Daniele Orso, Silvia Righi, Silvia Salvagnini, Marco Scarpa and Julian Zhara.

The project thus contributes to promoting both the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini upon the centenary of his birth and the young contemporary Italian poetry to which the Foundation has already dedicated a number of initiatives. This includes the Anthology of Young Italian Poetry which has already been presented in various Italian Cultural Institutes, which also deepens, without any rhetoric and with delicacy, the link between the poetic word of today and yesterday and the Italian landscape.

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‘Pier Paolo Pasolini, writer, director, playwright, and one of the most well-known and researched Italian twentieth-century artists was from the beginning and until the end a poet.

At the age of twenty, his enthusiasm for the dialect of a village in the Friulian countryside, living on the border between reality and dream, ignited the verses that gave life to those themes and ghosts that would accompany him throughout his life thereafter.

We retrace Pasolini’s first poem in Friulian in 11 short videos in the neighbourhoods and countryside where he was born.

And we hear, at each step, from eleven young Italian poets, whom we’ve asked to take us to where their lives are most deeply connected to poetry, and to tell us why.’

Gian Mario Villalta

The videos are available on the Italian vimeo channel also in French.

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PASOLINI 11#22 | TRAILER ENG

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a writer, director, playwright, one of the most well-known and studied Italian artists of the twentieth century, and from beginning to end, a poet. At the age of twenty, his enthusiasm for the dialect of a town in the Friulian countryside, which lived on the border between reality and dream, led to the verses that brought to life the themes and ghosts that would accompany him throughout his life. We retrace Pasolini’s first poem in the Friulian dialect, through 11 short videos shot in the hamlets and countryside where it was first composed. In each passage, we listen to eleven young Italian poets, who we have asked to transport us to where their lives link more deeply with poetry, and to tell us why.

PASOLINI 11#22 | AGA DAL ME PAÍS | Ep. 1

[acqua del mio paese / water of my homeplace] On one side there is the regenerating and maternal fresh water of Pasolini’s hometown Casarsa, on the other, the salty Venetian high tide. For poet Maddalena Lotter these elements transform the city into a “mythological monster” that “breathes in salted water until the world below and the world above, sea and earth, combine in an undefined and distorted body, finally exhaling, in a slow process of estrangement and nostalgia”. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Casarsa Pasolini’s poem Dedica (Dedication) Young poet Maddalena Lotter Location Sestiere Dorsoduro · Venice

PASOLINI 11#22 | JO TI RECUARDI | Ep. 2

[io ti ricordo / I remember you] For Pasolini his maternal home was a place of poetic revelation and confirmed his deep-rooted connection with his adopted homeland. It is the same attraction as the one Trieste exerts on poet Beatrice Achille - a house ‘enlarged’ to the size of a city, in the spirit of what she defines as "an intimate curse “you spend a lifetime running away from home just to return, even if only in your thoughts.” Its places “call you back, as if they were distant sirens and that is the only song that is familiar to you". Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Casa Colussi Pasolini’s poem Il nini muart [Il fanciullo morto/ The dead child] Young poet Beatrice Achille Location Molo Audace · Trieste

PASOLINI 11#22 | TAL ME MOND IL VIVI AL È SIGÚR | Ep. 3

[nel mio mondo il vivere è sicuro/ In my world living is safe] The return to his hometown that also references the title of the Pasolinian poem, is symbolically identified here by the railway station. Although Casarsa and Rimini are not the respective birth places for either Pasolini or for the poet Clery Celeste, they represent a secure and protected microcosm for both of them, suspended between "the land of symbols and signs and the land of reality" - bridges to cross in order to turn pain into a dream. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Casarsa Railway Station Pasolini’s poem Tornant al país [Tornando al paese/Returning home] Young poet Clery Celeste Location Tiberius Bridge · Rimini

PASOLINI 11#22 | TAI VECIUS MURS | Ep. 4

[sui vecchi muri/ onto old walls] Suburbs, nature and rural landscape as signs of rebirth. Pasolini, who had to evacuate to the hamlet of Versuta following the bombings of Casarsa, transformed such a dramatic experience into a new opportunity for cultural vitality with the Academiuta di lenga furlana (Academy of Friulian language). Similarly, poet Silvia Salvagnini sees in those same “fields, trees, weeds, ditches, abandoned houses, lights on the dazzling mountains” the “microscopic spaces of possibility, resistance and of a newfound, absurd, unjustified love of life”. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Versuta Pasolini’s poem O me donzel [Oh me giovinetto / O me young man] Young poet Silvia Salvagnini Location Terraglio · Mogliano Veneto

PASOLINI 11#22 | JO I SOJ UN SPIRT DI AMÒUR | Ep. 5

[io sono uno spirito d'amore / I am a spirit of love] The “places” of cultural vibrancy. For Pasolini they are represented by the theatre, teaching, civic and political commitment, also expressed by the posters affixed to the walls under the loggia of San Giovanni di Casarsa. While for poet Julian Zhara, such “places” are focused on the island of Giudecca, “destination of artists, writers, singers and stronghold of Venetian citizenship, which resists conforming, as well as resisting the destruction brought about by mass tourism until it becomes the Montmartre of Venice”. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place San Giovanni di Casarasa Pasolini’s poem Ciant da li ciampanis [Canto delle campane/The chiming of the bells] Young poet Julian Zhara Location Giudecca · Venice

PASOLINI 11#22 | QUAN’ CH’A MÚDIN IL COLÒUR LI FUÈJS | Ep. 6

[quando le foglie mutano di colore /When the leaves change colour] Pasolini links an allusion of death to the image of the lime trees on a tree-lined avenue, to their leaves, to the changing of nature, to human youth, to the suspension between dream and reality. Poet Franca Mancinelli experiences the same sensation in everything that the sea washes back up on Baia Flaminia beach in Pesaro where, while walking in winter, she sees leaves, fossils, trunks and smooth branches, pieces of nets, buoys, broken shells, even shoes. “It is like an ossuary,” she comments “a common cemetery where every border between living beings, humans, animals, vegetables or minerals, is confused and lost". Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Santa Croce Church Pasolini’s poem Il dì da la me muàrt [Il giorno della mia morte/ The day of my death] Young poet Franca Mancinelli Location Baia Flaminia · Pesaro

PASOLINI 11#22 | BESSOLA TAL SILENSI DAL SÈIL | Ep. 8

[da sola nel silenzio del cielo/ alone in the quiet sky] The river is the place where Pasolini spent the carefree time of summers in the company of his friends but also a place of solitude that fed in him a sense of his own diversity and restlessness. Unlike the Tagliamento River by the poet from Casarsa, for Simone Burratti, the Bacchiglione River in Padua represents "an internal-external dichotomy" in which to find tranquility. Although the river does not have elements of particular naturalistic fascination, spending afternoons there offer a moment of isolation from the voices of the world and from the life that runs alongside it. While remaining outdoors in front of the water, the poet remains invisible to people thanks to "a ceiling that protects him from the sky" represented by a bridge. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Tagliamento River Pasolini’s poem Lengàs dai frus di sera [Linguaggio dei fanciulli di sera/ Language of children at night] Young poet Simone Burratti Location Lungargine Bacchiglione · Padova

PASOLINI 11#22 | BESSOLA TAL SILENSI DAL SÈIL | Ep. 8

PASOLINI 11#22 | CHEL CÒUR BEÀT | Ep. 9

[quel cuore beato/ that joyful heart] Pasolini dedicated the poem Viers Pordenone e il mont (Verso Pordenone e il mondo/Towards Pordenone and the world) to the transformation of peasant civilization, in which he observed the relentless drift of the rural world in favor of a new (and destructive) industrial beginning. Similarly, today the poet Daniele Orso seems to welcome and remodel the same historical reflection to reaffirm the resilience and tenacity of his land (Bassa Friulana), against “the pressure of the times - of the barbaric raids of yesterday, and of industrial buildings and mega-shopping centers of today”. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Meduna River Pasolini’s poem Dopu sena [Dopo cena/After dinner] Young poet Daniele Orso Location Countryside · Bassa Friulana

PASOLINI 11#22 | TA VIOLIS MUARTIS DA MIL ANADIS | Ep. 11

[su viole morte da mille annate/in violets dead a thousand harvests ago] Two symbolic places united by an impression - Casarsa cemetery where Pier Paolo Pasolini is buried together with his mother Susanna Colussi and his brother Guido Alberto (killed in the Porzûs massacre of 1945), and the Church of San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan, "a place of the invisible" as the poet Silvia Righi defines it. Its ossuary "is a kind of doorstep between two worlds, that of the living and that of the dead" where "you can an unusual energy". This same sensation can be felt in Casarsa cemetery - that cultural and poetic energy that has marked the thinking of our time. The rest is just legend - such as the one about a little girl who every November 2 (the same date as Pasolini’s violent death) returns to live in the Milanese Church engaging with skeletons in a vital dance tal selèst dal so ziru ("In the heavens of her spinning"). Pier Paolo Pasolini’s place Casarsa Cemetery Pasolini’s poem Cansoneta [Canzonetta/Ditty] Young poet Silvia Righi Location San Bernardino alle Ossa · Milano

PASOLINI undici#ventidue

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Il progetto PASOLINI undici#ventidue (11 luoghi della poesia e del mito di Pier Paolo Pasolini a Casarsa # 11 poeti giovani in ascolto del mito e della poesia dei loro luoghi) si compone di una serie di video appositamente realizzati dalla Fondazione Pordenonelegge.it – che collabora per il triennio 2021- 2023 alla direzione artistica del Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini di Casarsa della Delizia – per italiana.esteri.it e per la rete degli Istituti Italiani di Cultura in occasione dell’anniversario della nascita del poeta.

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Nell’anniversario dei 100 anni dalla nascita (1922-2022), la Fondazione Pordenonelegge.it, responsabile dell’omonima Festa del Libro con gli Autori, realizza per la Farnesina un progetto video, a cura del poeta e scrittore Gian Mario Villalta, direttore di PNL, dedicato a Pier Paolo Pasolini.

PASOLINI undici#ventidue : una microstoria poetica di PPP articolata in 11 video, con due protagonisti per ogni clip (Pasolini e una voce nuova della giovane poesia italiana), arrivando così alla cifra-simbolo di 22.

Ogni video presenta nella prima parte un brano iconico dall’opera del primo Pasolini, ambientato nei suoi luoghi, e reso in modo visivo; mentre nella seconda parte sono 11 giovani poeti e poetesse a dialogare, uno alla volta e attraverso una propria poesia, con l’opera di Pasolini e con il loro luogo italiano del cuore, di nascita o d’elezione: Beatrice Achille, Simone Burratti, Clery Celeste, Maddalena Lotter, Franca Mancinelli, Giuseppe Nava, Daniele Orso, Silvia Righi, Silvia Salvagnini, Marco Scarpa, Julian Zhara.

Il progetto contribuisce così a promuovere sia l’opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini nel centenario della nascita che la giovane poesia italiana contemporanea a cui la Fondazione ha già ha dedicato molte iniziative, tra cui l’Antologia della Giovane Poesia italiana già presentata in diversi Istituti Italiani di Cultura, approfondendo inoltre, senza retorica e con delicatezza, il legame tra la parola poetica di oggi e di ieri e il paesaggio italiano.

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“Pier Paolo Pasolini, scrittore, regista, drammaturgo, artista tra i più conosciuti e studiati del Novecento italiano, è stato all’origine e fino alla fine un poeta.

A vent’anni, l’entusiasmo per la parlata di un paese della campagna friulana, vissuto sul confine tra realtà e sogno, ha acceso i versi che hanno dato vita a quei temi e a quei fantasmi che lo accompagneranno in seguito per tutta la vita.

Ripercorriamo in 11 brevi video la prima poesia di Pasolini in friulano nelle contrade e nelle campagne dove è nata.

E ascoltiamo, a ogni passaggio, undici giovani poeti italiani, ai quali abbiamo chiesto di portarci dove la loro vita più a fondo è legata alla poesia, e di raccontarci perché.”

Gian Mario Villalta

I video sono disponibili sul canale vimeo di italiana anche in lingua inglese e francese.