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School of Theater, Film and Television,
University of California Los Angeles

 


SYMPOSIUM

Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

Saturday November 5, 2005
 
 
 
LOCATION

UCLA, School of Theater Film and Television, Melnitz Hall, room 1422.
Directions to Hypermedia Studio and Melnitz Hall
 
PLAN SYMPOSIUM

      11 am - 11:15 am


Welcome and introduction
Robert Rosen, Dean Theater, Film and Television
Clara Celati, Italian Cultural Institute
Jeff Burke, Executive Director REMAP

      11:15 am - 1:15 pm


Morning Session
The Polis Of Pasolini: Maps, Symbols, Demise
Moderator: Prof. Karen Pinkus, USC

Alessandro Pirolini, UCLA Extension
Signs of the City: a Multimedia Introduction to the Function and Representation of the Urban Environment in Pasolini's Cinematic Work

Thomas Harrison, UCLA
The Defunct City

Gian Maria Annovi, Columbia University and Università di Bologna
Content with the Desert: Mapping Pasolini Beyond City and Periphery

      1:15 pm - 2:30 pm


Buffet

      2:30 pm - 4:30 pm


Afternoon Session
Memory And Legacy Of The Slums: Pasolini's Borgate As Cinematic Language

Moderator: Prof. Mario Saltarelli, USC

Dana Renga, Colorado College
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Memory of Martyrdom in New Italian Cinema

Ara H. Merjian, UC Berkeley
The Curator and the Excavator: Pasolini’s Cinematic Borgate (1957-1962) between Painting and Poetry

John David Rhodes, University of York
Pasolini’s (Oedipal) Housing Complex: Mamma Roma and the Question of Architectural Neorealism

      4:30 pm - 5:00 pm


Coffee break

      5:00 pm - 6:00 pm


Final round table with all the speakers and moderators


 
contacts
Chiara Ferrari chiarawh@ucla.edu 310.349.7645 (m)

Alessandro Marianantoni

alex@remap.ucla.edu 323.337.7410 (m)
 
 

 

screening
Notes Towards
an African Orestes
(Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975

 
Thursday November 3, 7:30pm
James Bridges Theater, (Melnitz 1409) at UCLA
 
 

The movie, presented in its new version by the Cineteca of Bologna at the
last Cannes Film Festival, will have its U.S. premiere at UCLA.

The screening is also promoted by the Documentary Salon Series.

The event is free and the tickets are available at the Melnitz box office the day of the screening, one hour before show time.

 
 

symposium + screening
.

 

updated November 3, 2005