"2 Pasolini" (2021) introduced by Andrei Ujică
Sun, Sep 13
|The Museum of Modern Art
ANDREI UJICĂ: THE MoMA RETROSPECTIVE
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA
About The Event
The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York is proud to support The Museum of Modern Art’s first complete North American retrospective dedicated to Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică, one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive and influential film essayists.
2 Pasolini. 2021. Germany. Directed by Andrei Ujică. DCP. In Italian; English subtitles. 11 min.
Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (Location Hunting in Palestine). 1965. Italy. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. DCP courtesy Viggo. In Italian; English subtitles. 55 min.
Andrei Ujică uses a Tupac Shakur song and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s documentary Sopralluoghi in Palestina (Location Hunting in Palestine) (put together as research for Pasolini’s 1964 film The Gospel According to St. Matthew) to interrogate the making and remaking of history. In his journey to the Holy Land in search of “authentic” locations for his Biblical epic, Pasolini, a heterodox Marxist Catholic, was bound to find a modern landscape inhospitable…