Pasolini and the Form of the City

00:00:53 Me and...

00:01:27 ...a profile of a town.

00:02:07 There's that house on the left, can you see it?

00:02:34 ...in Persia, in Eritrea, and I often had a problem when shooting a scene including...

00:03:02 ...there's the usual blue-brown mist typical of the great Nordic painting of Renaissance.

00:03:42 ...not horrible looking, I say, but extremely mediocre, poor, with no imagination,...

00:04:12 ...in short, to plan their potential construction elsewhere...well, what does offend me about them?

00:04:41 ...but also because I worked a lot on some historical movies where this was actually a practical problem,...

00:05:20 ...dating back to two or three thousands of years ago, which was kept intact, some little colums collecting and injecting wind...

00:06:06 ...communist extremists has come to power, well, there was an ancient seaside town called...

00:06:46 Not to mention Sana'a, do you remember that marvellous town of North Yemen, staid on desert,...

00:07:21 ...but we are not dealing with monuments, this is not the question, it's easy to save them,...

00:07:56 For example, actually Orte's form appears this way because, on the top of this brown hill,...

00:08:29 But it's always actual the problem of respecting a natural border between a town's form...

00:09:13 ...is not a great thing, it's almost nothing, a humble thing, it cannot even...

00:09:53 Similarly that point this road leads us to, that ancient gate of Orte,...

00:10:35 ...codified, which nobody uses to protect, something which is a work by people, so to say,...

00:11:19 ...but nobody realizes that what must be protected is just this anonymous past,...

00:11:57 ...at towns like Sabaudia, but now, watching this town, we're having an...

00:12:37 that families have been created inside it regularly by complete, serious and...

00:13:12 So I'm thinking this...that fascism, the fascist regime was in short nothing but...

00:13:47 ...ruled tyrannically without being able to affect it, that is it's the reality of...

00:14:45 ...has been producing in a very differentiated way over the centuries.

00:15:21 ...nothing we can do anymore.