Ecstatic figures in Pasolini's Teorema. Seduction and mediation Cover Image

Figures extatiques dans Teorema de Pasolini. Séduction et médiation
Ecstatic figures in Pasolini's Teorema. Seduction and mediation

Author(s): Fabiana Florescu
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: Pier Paolo Pasolini; mystical ecstasies; effects on consciousness; look; gaze; disfigurement; medium

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to observe in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, Teorema (1968), the different mystical experiences and their effects on consciousness. The deconstruction of the mystical, ideological gaze and sensory causes two instances of the experience: the characters and the possible spectators. The film lays question of the limit between imagination and reality in this mystical and ideological experience, in the same way, to act on the viewer? Beyond this aspect, there is another attitude that we propose to analyze: a reflection geometrically constructed on the becoming of the self, of the soul which, after the encounter with the Stranger (Angel and Demon), is taken by the ecstasy of another-self who wakes up in him. On this point, memory plays a fundamental role in the link between self-awareness and the ancestral fullness of the soul.

  • Issue Year: 20/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 181-194
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French