Parallel to the exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. Porcili, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents a series of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini at Babylon cinema. This extensive retrospective highlights a selection of his most celebrated films, offering insights into the central themes and the political and aesthetic principles underpinning his work. Pasolini believed that cinema was the ideal medium for depicting reality – a reality he saw deeply connected to the “sacredness” and innocence of the human body. Many of his characters exist on the margins of society and history – including vagabonds, thieves, and disenfranchised youth – through whom he sought to represent aspects of authentic life. Pasolini frequently critiqued the bourgeoisie for its embrace of consumerist values, often portraying it as disconnected from genuine human experience. The films in this series feature stark, precarious landscapes and disarming actors whose roles reflect lives marked by poverty. In masterpieces such as Accattone (The Scrounger), La ricotta, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew), and Decameron, Pasolini celebrates the beauty of innocence. Conversely, in Teorema (Theorem), Porcile (The Pigsty), and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom), he unflinchingly exposes inhumanity and the abuse of power.

The film series is curated by Giuseppe Garrera and Cesare Pietroiusti.

All films will be shown in the original Italian version with English subtitles.

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 8 pm

Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I / F 1969, 99 min). With Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Ugo Tognazzi

Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6 pm

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I / F 1975, 113 min). With Paolo Bonacelli, Hélène Surgère, Elsa De Giorgi

With a subsequent commentary by Klaus Theweleit, literary scholar and author of, among others, Männerphantasien (1977) and Pocahontas-Komplex (2020)

In German

Thursday, October 3, 2024, 8 pm

Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I / F 1964, 131 min). With Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini

Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 8 pm

Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I / F 1971, 112 min). With Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Silvana Mangano

Thursday, October 17, 2024, 8 pm

Uccellacci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1966, 88 min). With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Rossana Di Rocco

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 4 pm*

Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1962, 106 min). With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

With an introduction by Margarethe von Trotta, screenwriter and director of films including Die bleierne Zeit (1981), Rosa Luxemburg (1986), Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009), and Hannah Arendt (2012)

In German

Sunday, October 27, 2024, 4 pm*

Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1968, 97 min). With Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti

Sunday, November 3, 2024, 4 pm*

Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1961, 116 min). With Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini

With an introduction by Thomas Macho, cultural scientist and author of, among others, Das Leben ist ungerecht. Unruhe bewahren (2010) and Das Leben nehmen. Suizid in der Moderne (2017)

In German

Sunday, November 10, 2024, 4 pm*

La ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I / F 1963, 34 min; 3rd part of the film series Ro.Go.Pa.G.). With Orson Welles, Mario Cipriani, Laura Betti

Che cosa sono le nuvole? (Pier Paolo Pasolini, I 1968, 20 min). With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti

With an introduction by Hito Steyerl, artist and author, contributor to the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2015) and participant at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017) and documenta (2007; 2022)

In German

* Film screening as part of the CinemAperitivo program series at Babylon Kino

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