Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be a poet, you need a lot of time

Per essere poeti, bisogna avere molto tempo (To be a poet, you need a lot of time), by Renato Corsini and Gerardo Martorelli, is an initiative part of the Brescia Photo Festival and promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and the Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with Ma.Co.f – Centre of Italian Photography, which for the fifth edition explores The Shapes of Portrait in world photography.

The exhibition offers visitors a private portrait of the Friulian intellectual, struggling with everyday family life but also protagonist of the epochal change of a society, in sixty shots by important Italian photographers including Gianni Berengo Gardin, Federico Garolla, Ezio Ciol, Sandro Becchetti, Aldo Durazzi, Ezio Vitale, Vittorio La Verde and Rodrigo Pais.

The exhibition focuses on the loving relationship with his mother Susanna, an important reference in Pasolini’s life through the lens of Vittorio La Verde, who captured them together in 1965 in the living room of the director’s house in Rome; on his passion for football, which he himself defined “the only sacred representation of our time”, with pictures by the Dufoto agency during a match between former footballers and show business personalities; in the company of a young Gianni Morandi; and on his approach to the world of film, researching the places and the people who made his film production so unmistakable.

There are also photographs with his friends, companions in his private and professional life: from Bernardo Bertolucci to Ninetto Davoli, Anna Magnani, Laura Betti, Alberto Moravia and Maria Callas.