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Notes Towards an African Orestes (restored print) screening with The Walls of Sana’a Series: Heretical Epiphanies: The Cinematic Pilgrimages of Pier Paolo Pasolini Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Country: Italy, Release: 1970, Runtime: 65 A film about an idea for a film never made: Pasolini journeys to post-colonial Africa to develop a film version of Aeschylus’ masterwork, The Oresteia. While his camera searches out potential locations, Pasolini on the soundtrack offers his ideas about the play as well as provocative observations about the continent. Different casting ideas emerge: Can a beautiful Masai warrior play Agamemnon, if the part of Orestes goes to a Western-dressed university student from Tanzania? Chorus members are drawn from the farmers, small merchants and beggars the director meets at markets. The background of impending violence in Aeschylus is evoked with images of the then-raging struggle in Biafra. Gradually, Pasolini conjures up his contemporary African Oresteia by finding the essence of Aeschylus’ dark vision in the world his camera discovers. screening with The Walls of Sana’a / Le mura di Sana’a Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1964; 16m While searching for locations for The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pasolini visited Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Struck by its beauty, as well as the disastrous condition of its ancient buildings, Pasolini made The Walls of Sana’a as an appeal to UNESCO to preserve and protect the city’s architectural treasures.

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