Pier Paolo Pasolini, ‘Comizi d’amore’ (1964). Film Still.
Courtesy of Compass Films / Instituto Luce Cinecittà.
A special screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s feature-length documentary ‘Comizi d’amore’ (Love Meetings) (1964) to accompany Sharon Hayes, 'Ricerche'. The film will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).
Developed during a period of rapid modernisation and socioeconomic transformation across Italy, ‘Comizi d’amore’ examines Italian attitudes towards sex and sexuality, relationships, gender and contemporary collective identifications.
The film follows Pasolini and a small camera crew through Italy where, at beach resorts, town centres, universities, fields and factories, they interview groups of students, children and co-workers. Filmed in the cinéma- vérité style, Pasolini himself often appears just out of shot with microphone extended, posing questions which reveal their subjects’ freedoms and prejudices, or “inversions” and “perversions”. Pasolini divides this cinematic report into a series of ‘ricerches’ or researches.
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Italian with English subtitles
89 minutes
Compass Films / Instituto Luce Cinecittà
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This event was part of Sharon Hayes ‘Ricerche’
