Pier Paolo Pasolini | the artist

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna 1922-Roma 1975), is one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century; he was also devoted to the cinema. From the most intimate literature to the most popular cinema, Pasolini was a poet with a firm, clear mark on reality and everyday life…

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) has the dubious distinction of being the only great filmmaker who was murdered, possibly at the behest of a right-wing faction which loathed the openly gay, Marxist, atheist – and popular – artist. Whatever the facts of his death (conspiracy theories still abound), his reputation is based securely on his extraordinary legacy as an author and filmmaker…