BEFORE PASOLINI
a natural event

TEATRO DELLE ARIETTE - 2002
 

Pasolini is a travel mate. He is with us in our theatre and in our life.
His thoughts, his poetry and the images of him inhabit our place, the Ariette (the farm on the hills near Bologna where we live from 1989).
Sometimes he appears behind the grass, in a starry sky, in the eyes of a sheep or in a wild animal.

It is difficult to say what “before Pasolini” is.
It is difficult for us to go further the definition of “natural event”
For us, those who conceived it, is an act of deep love, an act of unconscious faith.
Such a love can lead to destruction and suicide. A suicide for love.
An act of faith in the sky, in the earth, in mankind, in fireflies.
Before words and culture, there is something that joins all, human beings, beasts, fruits and leaves.
We are not there. There’s everything we love.
And that name: Pasolini, before him. As he said “I’m a force of the past”.
This time there is no need of recreating a world.
The world is already there, you just have to look at it.