Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)
Light Industry hosts a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unrealized screenplay for a film about St. Paul, which is being published this summer in its first-ever English translation. Written relatively late in his career, between the time of his work on Teorema and Salò, it is less a traditional scenario than an evocative treatment, broken down into 112 brief, poetic descriptions of shots and sequences. As with Pasolini’s earlier Gospel According to St. Matthew, the piece reclaims a key episode of the New Testament and reveals the revolutionary political potential of its message.
Readers: Hilton Als, Melissa Anderson, Elizabeth A. Castelli, Paul Chan, Nicholas Cullinan, Lia Gangitano, Ed Halter, Nellie Killian, Richard Maxwell, Jonas Mekas, Eileen Myles, Nick Pinkerton, Sam Pulitzer, R.H. Quaytman, Nicolas Rapold, Ariana Reines, Martha Rosler, Luc Sante, Amy Taubin, Lynne Tillman
6:30pm at Light Industry, free
155 Freeman Street, Greenpoint
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30pm. www.facebook.com/events/603625373068844
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