16mm Film Screening: Cortile Cascino, New York Public Library - Seward
Park Branch, miércoles, 29. enero 2020 This long-suppressed and
controversial documentary was produced in 1961 for network television
but never broadcast. Co-mingling cinema verité and narrative
techniques, the film offers a sensitive but critical look at the slum
called Cortile Cascino in the center of Palermo, Sicily where poverty
and early death are constants and where the church and the Mafia
compete for the inhabitants' fealty. The established church, largely
ignoring the plight of its parishioners, nonetheless voices its
outrage when a faith healer draws large crowds. The Mafia runs an
illegal slaughterhouse and controls the concession to funerals but
also distributes free food to the district's hungry residents. In the
**** of relentless adversity, the women provide the only stabilizing
force. The neighborhood's despair is tragically foregrounded in a
sequence depicting the burial of baby who died of malnutrition. The
soundtrack is composed of comments by the people, recorded and
translated by the filmmakers. 16mm Film Screening: Cortile Cascino
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