(August 26, 2016) Inspired by the stories of the ancient Arab world, “The Flower of the Arabian Nights” (1974) is a film that his own director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, calls “realistic, full of dust and poor faces … a visionary film, where the characters are ‘kidnapped’ and forced to involuntary cognitive anxiety, the object of which are the events that happen to them. ” The work of the Italian director and his crew will be documented with photographs by Roberto Villa, which traces along with them fairytale cities and villages of Yemen and Iran: the shots are gathered in the exhibition “The East of Pasolini” which follows the director at work highlighting his choices, his intuitions and his own creative freedom as an artist. The exhibition makes a stop in Japan: organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo in collaboration with the Roberto Villa Fund, Bologna Cineteque, and the Itochu Shokuhin company, on September 9 at 18:30 it will be inaugurated at the author’s presence, and will be open to the public until September 24. (Red)
