Cuba remembers Pasolini with director Andrea D’Ambrosio

During the theoretical sessions, the experts will discuss the work of one of the main figures of the seventh Italian art, who stood out for his denouncing anti-fascist style, his ideas related to the left and communism, as well as his approach to sexual issues. , considered tab for the time, the Cuban press presented the event together with the director of the Cinemateca de Cuba, Luciano Castillo

His work as a screenwriter, the presence of death in his work, the influence on international cinematography, the conjugation of cinema with literature: to deepen these themes they will meet, with Castillo, Norge Espinosa, Roberto Mndez Martnez, Erin Pea, Arturo Arango, Antonio Enrique Gonzlez Rojas, Astrid Santana, Alberto Garrands and Daniel Cspedes. On the calendar, therefore, the screening of the documentaries “Pier Paolo Pasolini: The poet on the beach” by Pite Pias and Jorge Ortiz de Landzuri; “The young corsair-Pasolini in Bologna” by Emilio Marrese and “In the land of storms and primroses” by Andrea D’Ambrosio.

The film

A mosaic of testimonies from students and those who knew and loved him. To truly understand Pasolini’s work, one must start from the beginning. From the places of the poet’s childhood and adolescence. Casarsa, Versuta, Friuli – says D’Ambrosio – or started working on it in 2000, the intervention of the Cineteca allowed me to arrive at this final product that Cecchi Gori wanted to distribute in home video. probably the most complete contribution to the Friulian cultural universe that nurtured Pasolini and contributed to his true formation. a film that I care a lot about, a narration made with people, a collage of interviews with students and friends of that important historical period. Nico Naldini tells, for example, the closeness and the adventures together in the Friulian countryside. Giuseppe Zigaina focused on the poet’s pictorial training, while Ovidio Colussi tells of how and why the Friulian Academiuta de lenga was born. Don Dante Spagnol instead introduces us to the teacher Pasolini. Then I met Guglielmo Susanna, Maria Querin, the students of the Valvasone school, with the lawyer Brusin. Up to Ernesta Bazzana who welcomed him during the bombing in his house in Versuta, and to the testimonies of Don Redento Bello and Federico Tacoli who tell of the death of his brother Guido, partisan murdered in Porzus … Witnesses almost all disappeared that make the film unrepeatable , a precious document also to show rural and peasant civilization in a land that has influenced Pasolini’s poetics.

Director

Born in Roccadaspide in 1975, D’Ambrosio studied directing and screenwriting with Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Ettore Scola, Florestano Vancini and Ugo Pirro. He has made numerous documentaries: “Fighting fish” (2002) wins the Cipputi Prize at the Torino Film Festival; “Checosamanca” (2006) collective film, in competition at the Rome Film Festival; “Biutiful Cauntri” (2008) directed with Esmeralda Calabria and Peppe Ruggiero, “Nastro d’Argento” for the best documentary of the year, Special Mention at the Torino Film Festival and many other awards; between 2010 and 2014, while developing the denouncing film “Two euro an hour” based on crime news, he made the documentaries “By profession I am a landscape expert” with Franco Arminio, “Campania Burning”, “The days of merla ”,“ The fruits of labor ”. His latest documentary, shot in the days of the lockdown, “The path of the wolves”, instead won the De Seta Award.