Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967, 瓦尔达拍摄帕索里尼，纽约1967年
Italy
Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
USA
New York Film Festival
Italy
USA
Varda: Now, talking about cinema: would you tell me your definitions of reality and fiction?
Pasolini: There's no difference between reality and fiction because cinema is reality expressing itself through itself. In reality, I can photograph a man walking down a street. He's not aware that he's being filmed, and this is reality. If I choose an actor to play that man, then there's another reality, the actor's reality. But it's always reality, it's never fiction. I always take an actor for what he is, I don't like him to act.
oh to wander the streets of new york with agnès varda and her 16mm camera
An excellent four minutes of Agnes Varda interviewing Pasolini as he walks the streets of Midnight Cowboy era Times Square. His primary observation of NYC is poverty. Not surprising given his respect for those on the outside of bourgeois existence.
I almost went to Montreal just to watch this but now it's on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_SB_bJWmo&list=WL&index=60&t=4s&ab_channel=WorldForgot
This short film can be watched here: Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
I think I need to take myself to film school. I do not know the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. However, a quick Google search tells me that he was a very influential Italian director. Perhaps if I was more familiar with his work, this short film of him walking in New York in 1967 would have had more of an impact on me. I found his musing interesting, but they lacked relevance since I cannot connect his thoughts to his work. Perhaps someday I will watch Salo (his most famous and infamous work) though I have resisted thus far. Or perhaps…
"There's no difference between reality and fiction, because cinema is reality expressing itself through itself."
