Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini's trip to Palestine in his film Seeking locations in Palestine for the Gospel According to Matthew in 1963. It adapts his script into a route map superimposed on the current landscape, creating contradictions and breaks between the visual and the audible, the expected and the real. The video explores questions of repetition - for Heidegger repetition, retrieval, are terms for an appropriate attitude toward the past - and establishes a dialogue with Pasolini. The term discutere (to smash to pieces) is the Latin source for dialogue and discussion. The video does not criticise Pasolini but rather reveals the possibilities in his thought and works back to the “experiences” which inspired it.

Ayreen Anastas, writes in fragments and makes films and videos. Her work has been shown internationally in festivals, museums and cinemas but not yet broadcast on television. Her primary interests include philosophy, literature, the political in the everyday and more. She is one of the organizers of 16 Beaver Group and Un Groupe Comme Les Autres. Recently, together with Rene Gabri, they produced Camp Campaign and What Everybody Knows.