A VOID IN THE COSMOS AND FROM THERE YOU SING: EARLY PASOLINI

One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian artist and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, these films stand as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.