Pasolini's contribution to the 1967 film Le streghe [The Witches], a compilation of five short stories directed by different Italian film makers. In the sketch, Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife by mushroom poisoning, are dedicated to find her replacement and have no luck until they find a mysterious deaf mute green-haired woman.
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“Pasolini filmed Che cosa sono le nuvole? immediatly after La terra vista dalla luna [The Earth Seen from the Moon], an episode created for Le streghe [The Witches], which came out the year before, in 1967. These two episodes, as Maurizio Viano remarked, belong to the same sequence that had begun with Uccellacci e uccellini in which Pasolini ‘explored the possibility of cinematically articulating a discourse on ‘the image,’’ which he considered superior to the word, being closer to the body.”
Daniela Bini1
- 1Daniela Bini, “High and Low Art, Inadequacy of Words, and Self-Referentiality in Pasolini’s Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole?,” Italica 90, no. 2 (2013): 227–44.