Visions for Architectural Demodernization, Emilio Distretti w/ Alessandro Petti
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Visions for Architectural Demodernization. Emilio Distretti w/ Alessandro Petti.
(PDF)Themes: Colonialism, Reuse
In the short docufilm The Form of the City (1974) Pier Paolo
Pasolini is seen walking the sandy coastline of the Agro
Pontino (Pontine Marshes) near Rome. He offers a critical
reflection on the state of postwar society in the age of consumerism,
mass media, and television. Against what he sees
as the specter of looming decadence, Pasolini praises the
lifeworld of Sabaudia, a rural town that only a few decades
earlier had been sanctified by Mussolini as the symbol of
bonifica integrale (integral reclamation) and the so-called
“internal colonization” of Italy’s southern lands.
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