Glauber e Pasolini, forças do passado

This article builds a dialogue between Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. The proposal is to think less about Glauber and Pasolini, either from a thematic or biographical point of view (which has already been extensively worked on by the critical), and more along Glauber and Pasolini, concentrating on their critical reflections on history. Starting with Pasolini’s poem “I am a force of the Past”, I think about this line of force, understanding it not as something that is accessed in a chronological past, but in an archaeology of the present (Agamben), which keeps returning to its origin in the present time. The straight line of progressive history is abandoned in favour of the shapeless constellation of atopic and anachronistic data (Benjamin). The reflection focuses mainly on the essays included in Revolução do Cinema Novo (1981) and O século do cinema (1983) and on Glauber’s film Claro (1975), and on some of Pasolini’s reflections made during interviews and in texts collected in Escritos corsários (1975). Between indigestion (La Ricotta) and hunger (“Aesthetics of Hunger”), between development and progress, between Europe and the Third World, the intention is to let latent the provocations that Glauber and Pasolini exercised in their time – and that survive into ours.