ETERNAL PASOLINI

On November 2, 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini was found on the beach at Ostia. At his funeral, his friend Alberto Moravia delivered a famous eulogy in which he said: “Above all, we have lost a poet. And there are not so many poets in the world. Only three or four are born in a century. When this century ends, Pasolini will be among the few who will be remembered as poets.”

Fifty years later, that poetic spirit continues to move us — as an open wound, a lucid conscience, a poet who turned cinema into a relentless form of struggle. This November, fifty years after his death, Cineteca honors his legacy with two special sessions exploring the profoundly human and literary essence of his film work: a kind of writing made of images, bodies, and contradictions, where poetry coexists with mud, and the sacred with the political.