Pier Paolo Pasolini

Biography

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.

Directed

1. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976) — Director
2. Accattone (1961) — Director
3. Theorem (1968) — Director
4. Mamma Roma (1962) — Director
5. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965) — Director
6. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) — Director
7. Oedipus Rex (1967) — Director
8. The Decameron (1971) — Director
9. Love Meetings (1965) — Director
10. The Canterbury Tales (1972) — Director
11. Arabian Nights (1974) — Director
12. Medea (1969) — Director
13. Pigsty (1969) — Director
14. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) — Director
15. The Witches (1967) — Director
16. Caprice Italian Style (1968) — Director
17. La Rabbia (1963) — Director
18. Love and Anger (1969) — Director
19. Scouting in Palestine (1965) — Director
20. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1975) — Director
21. What Are the Clouds? (1968) — Director
22. The Walls of Sana'a (1974) — Director
23. La Rabbia di Pasolini (2008) — Director
24. December 12th (1972) — Director
25. Notes for a Film in India (1968) — Director
26. The Earth As Seen from the Moon (1967) — Director
27. The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969) — Director
28. Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound (1967) — Director
29. La ricotta (1963) — Director
30. Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza (1970) — Director
31. Orgy (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Oedipus Rex (1967) — High Priest (uncredited)
2. The Decameron (1971) — Allievo di Giotto
3. Love Meetings (1965) — Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
4. The Canterbury Tales (1972) — Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Kill and Pray (1967) — Father Juan
6. Scouting in Palestine (1965) — Self (uncredited)
7. Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (2006) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
8. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1975) — Self (uncredited)
9. The Walls of Sana'a (1974) — Narrator (voice)
10. Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981) — Self- archive footage
11. Federico Fellini's Autobiography (2000) — Self (archive footage)
12. The Hunchback (1960) — Monco
13. Pasolini and the Form of the City (1974) — Himself
14. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 (2022) — Self
15. Pasolini prossimo nostro (2006) — Se stesso
16. Notes for a Film in India (1968) — Self
17. Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema? (2002) — Self (archive footage)
18. In a Future April: The Young Pasolini (2020) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
19. Callas Assoluta (2007) — Self (archive footage)
20. Pasolini, el poeta en la playa (2000) — Archive footage
21. Arruso (2000) — Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
22. My Name Is Anna Magnani (1980) — Self (archive footage)
23. Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life (1971) — Self
24. Vor mir der Süden (2021)
25. Cinéma et Réalité (1967) — Self
26. Io sono nata viaggiando (2013) — Self (archive footage)
27. Notarangelo the Soul Hunter (2019) — Self (archive footage)
28. The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo (2021) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
29. Salò: Yesterday and Today (2002)
30. The Isle of Medea (2016) — Self (archive footage)
31. Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound (1967) — Himself
32. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi (1967) — Himself
33. Pasolini's Last Words (2012) — Self (archive)
34. Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova (2023) — Self
35. The Ashes of Pasolini (1994)
36. Pasolini on 'Porcile' (1969) — Self
37. Pasolini l'Enragé (1966)
38. Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006) — Interviewee (archive)
39. Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema (1985) — Self
40. Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce (2015)