From Bethlehem to Basilicata: Framing Pasolini from Palestine

Sopralluoghi in Palestina ( Location Hunting Palestine ) () documents Pasolini’s search for an archaic, biblical world within which to set Il Vangelo secondo Matteo The Gospel According St. Matthew (). Palestine/Israel was eventually abandoned, with being filmed and around Basilicata. documentary has proven a fertile object Palestinian artists have conducted dialogues. Following Edward Said, this article reads the ‘contrapuntally’ – as text be resituated responded through two responses: Ayreen Anastas’s Pasolini Pa* Basma Alsharif’s Ouroboros Examining engagement Carlo Levi’s Cristo si è fermato Eboli Christ Stopped at (1945), interrogates Basilicata Anastas’ responses from Palestine, arguing that contrapuntal movement between these four works constitutes ‘dialectical’ cinematic image of reality, archaic contemporary.