A dead poet, 33 possible crime scenes, and you're the detective now.
Following the trip Pasolini made in 1959 along the entire coast of Italy as a reporter for the magazine Sucesso, they where located different places as possible scenarios for his death. Understanding cataloging as a tool that allows us to organize knowledge for recovery, this catalog offers the viewer the possibility of redemption of the rebellious individual or the questioning of our acceptance of the critical difference.
Direction
Domínguez weaponizes the catalog format—bureaucracy as elegy.
Editing
48 minutes that feel like drowning in file cabinets and grief.
Director
Chus Domínguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pasolini's 1975 murder was officially 'solved' in 48 hours; this film takes 48 minutes just to list what we lost. The parallel is brutal.
Domínguez shot along Pasolini's actual 1959 Sucesso route, meaning each 'scenario' is also a ghost of the living writer—before he knew he'd become a martyr.
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