Pasolini 22 / Il Giovane Corsaro
Special Event
Il Giovane Corsaro – Pasolini a Bologna
Wednesday, October 19 at 7:30pm CT
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State Street, Chicago IL
For the first time, “Il Giovane Corsaro – Pasolini da Bologna,” tells the story of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s youth, in a documentary format, in the context of the city where he was born on March 5th, 1922 and where he studied from 1937 to 1943. What he would become known for, he was already in Bologna. And yet, many still ignore this fundamental part of his life.
Friendships, teachers, studies, passions, family, conflits, torments, the war, the surroundings, the first experiences in all directions of knowledge and life: cinema, poetry, literature, theater, painting, journalism, politics, social activism, sport and sex. PPP had a visceral connection with the city of arcades, which continued until his death, without sparing critiques to the “consumerist and communist” Bologna of the ‘70s.
The protagonist of the docufilm (shot by the David di Donatello Awardee for best photography, Gian Filippo Corticelli) is a student who is writing a dissertation on the relationship between PPP and Bologna, interpreted by the young actor, Nico Guerzoni, a true revelation. Neri Marcorè is the voice of Pasolini’s words, based on articles, letters and interviews.
The screening will be introduced by Prof. Marco Gargiulo. Marco Gargiulo is full professor of Italian linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he works since 2010. His research covers multilingualism, language variation, and language perception, focusing on urban space and the language of Italian cinema, analyzing the interaction between language and film, language and spatial representation, languages in contact and cinematic representation. On the topic, he has published on language spatiality, Fellini and multilingualism, Pasolini and reality, language conflict, glottophagy and camouflage in the Italian cinematic city. He also has interest in history of Italian language, working on Leonardo Salviati and the language theories of the XVI century. He is co-director of a new interdisciplinary book-series on Spatial Studies, and he is currently writing on the relationship between language and cinema, television, and sport and on the urban space in the Italian cinema from 1940s-60s.
The event is part of the series Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poetry, Passion and Provocation, presented by Gene Siskel Film Center. This series is made possible by and presented with generous support from the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.