On the 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, artist-filmmakers Cathy Lee Crane and John Di Stefano present a meditation on Pasolini with a series of video-based works presented at NYU’s Casa Italiana.

'Pasolini: Durations' proposes a poetic and experiential approach to Pasolini’s radical social critique and aims to recontextualize his work within the contemporary moment.

NOVEMBER 3 - 13, 2025 (10:00 am - 6:00 pm)

OPENING: MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)

CASA ITALIANA – ZERILLI-MARIMÒ
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011

Inspired by Pasolini’s ideas about filmmaking as a means of engaging the social and the political, Crane and Di Stefano’s work considers the spatial and temporal relationships of the moving image as a means of revisiting history.

In an essayistic manner, Crane and Di Stefano mine Pasolini’s films and writings for resonant moments which they rework through strategies of montage to produce new perspectives. In some works, urban locations evoked by Pasolini’s films and writings serve as catalysts for new, speculative and revised narratives, both documentary and fictional in nature.

The exhibition is accompanied by a special screening of Cathy Lee Crane’s film 'Pasolini’s Last Words' (2012) on November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM with a reading by Stacy Szymaszek from 'The Pasolini Book.'