Seeking Locations in Palestine for the Film "The Gospel According to Matthew" (Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il film "Il Vangelo secondo Matteo") (1965)

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Italy 1965, 35mm, b/w, 52 min.

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of filming his biblical epic The Gospel According to Matthew in its approximate historical locations. Edited by The GospelÔs producer for potential funders and distributors, Seeking Locations in Palestine features semi-improvised commentary from Pasolini as its only soundtrack. As we travel from village to village, we listen to Pasolini's idiosyncratic musings on the teachings of Christ and witness his increasing disappointment with the people and landscapes he sees before him. Israel, he laments, is much too modern. The Palestinians, much too wretched; it would be impossible to believe the teachings of Jesus had reached these faces. The Gospel According to Matthew was ultimately filmed in Southern Italy. Mel Gibson would use some of the same locations forty years later for The Passion of the Christ. 

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P.P.PASOLINI / SOPRALLUOGHI PER IL FILM " IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO"

Elena Tardonato Faliere traduce Pier Paolo Pasolini, " Me voy..."

ALEXO | Domenica, 4 aprile 2010 @12:36

Me voy, te dejo en el atardecer
que aunque triste, tan dulcemente desciende
para nosostros los vivos, con la luz de vela

que al barrio en penumbra descubre.
Y lo desordena. Lo hace aún más grande, vacío
más amplio y lejano, lo enciende

de una vida inquieta, y del ronco
rodar del tranvía, de los gritos humanos
dialectales, conjuga un concierto sordo

y absoluto.

Me ne vado, ti lascio nella sera...

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                                                                                   Traduzione  di Elena Tardonato Faliere

E’ Triste. La polemica contro / ilPci andava fatta nella prima metà /del decennio passato. Siete in ritardo, figli./E non ha nessuna importanza se allora non eravate ancora nati./Adesso i giornalisti di tutto il mondo (compresi quelli delle televisioni)/ vi leccano (come credo ancora si dica nel linguaggio delle Università) il culo. 

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