More from you – PasolinAssisi is the title of the 80th Course of Christian Studies completely dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Assisi adventure scheduled in the “Christian Citadel” of Assisi, from 22 to 27 August 2022. One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini and sixty years after his meeting with the Citadel of Assisi, the leitmotif of these days will be the thought and work of the writer and director, linked by a profound, fruitful and lasting relationship with the “Pro Civitate Christiana”: contributions from critics, pedagogists , actors, directors and historians. On the website www.cittadella.org, it is possible to view the program of the Course which will deepen the modalities and outcomes of the meeting and the consequent presence of Pasolini in the Cittadella: its elaboration for the cinematographic part (a series of films will be screened, Inspections in Palestine And The Gospel according to Matthew, Birds and birds and also in the autumn session of the Course Beggar) Cinit Cineforum Italiano gave its contribution.
After all, the bet that gave birth to a masterpiece of the caliber of The Gospel according to Matthewa film that was shown to the prelates who participated in the Second Vatican Council and presented as a French premiere in the cathedral of Nôtre-Dame.
To reflect on Pasolini there will be among others Card. Matteo Zuppi (president of the CEI and archbishop of Bologna), Ascanio Celestini (who is touring the show Pasolini Museum), Ivano Dionigi (formerly magnificent rector of the Alma Mater), Roberto Mancini, Goffredo Fofi, Francesca Tuscano, Roberto Chiesi (head of the Pasolini Archive in Bologna), and the eminent philologist Franco Zabagli. Next to them, “our” Giovanni Ricci that he will give an original contribution resulting from research in the archives of the Cittadella on the friendship born with Pasolini, Don Giovanni Rossi and the other Volunteers of the Cittadella; furthermore Marco Vanellidirector of “Cabiria – Studi di cinema”, quarterly published by Cinit, who on the morning of Friday 26 August will converse with Guido Chiesa and Nicoletta Micheli, respectively director and screenwriter of the film I am with you, screened on the evening of 25, on the theme “The sacred between image and word”. As well as The Gospel according to Matthew by Pasolini intercepted the spiritual and pastoral needs of Catholics at the time of the Council, Io sono con te is the evangelical film for Christians today, called to question themselves on the historicity of Jesus, on his Jewishness and on the humanity matured within of the family of Nazareth.
During the research that the members of Cinit have been doing for months in the Cittadella Archives, an unpublished intervention by Pasolini was found dating back to his participation in the Writers’ Conference in 1965 on the subject Restlessness and hope in contemporary literature. The discovery was made by Lapo Lucarotti, a very young collaborator of Cinit di Lucca, just 18 years old, who spent a few days last July to carry out these researches together with Marco Vanelli. Pasolini’s text will be presented and commented on by Giovanni Ricci during the conference, and premiered in «Avvenire» in the same days.
The autumn session will see the presence of Dacia Maraini and a recital by the singer Giovanna Marini. An exhibition itinerary was also created, the highlight of which is the original text of the screenplay de The Gospel according to Matthew with the interesting notes in the margins of the director and Don Giovanni Rossi: until 31 December it will be possible to have this original experience of immersion in the world of the writer and director born from the assembly of the various remaining testimonies of Pasolini’s active presence in the archives, in the library , in the art gallery and in the sound library of the Citadel. It is a truly unique opportunity for the world of youth, university and high school students, to get in touch with the most discussed figure of writer, director and intellectual of the second half of the Italian twentieth century. Participation in the conference is free. Those interested in participating must contact the Citadel secretariat by calling: 075/813231or by writing to the email: ospitalita@cittadella.org.