Closing social and screening for NY Counter Film Festival

In 1963, Pasolini visited Palestine to search for locations for his film, the Gospel according to Matthew. His journey included locations in Nazareth and the Galilee, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Bethlehem and the Naqab. Pasolini conducted quick conversations with a biblical scholar don Andrea Carraro and later included a voice over with his comments and thoughts on the journey and on his encounter with the landscape and the people. Pasoline Pa* Palestine seeks to revive various relations to Pasolini's trip and film through a repetition of his journey.

What opportunities did Pasolini miss on that journey? What light does his visit shed on Palestinian life from the perspective of this repetition 40 years later?

Directed by Ayreen Anastas - 2005 - 51 mins