1968 | Italian with English subtitles | 98 minutes

An unnamed Visitor enters the lives of an upper-class Milanese family. Human-turned-divine force, his short-lived stay sparks the quick sexual unraveling of the bourgeois family.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s caps our general course on the power of the erotic, measured by Audre Lorde as that which lies “between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” One by one, the Visitor awakens each member of the upper class family from their sexual slumber, irrespective of gender, class or sexual orientation.

Can the erotic liberate one’s consciousness? Pasolini toys with this question, never fully answering it, but vehemently insisting on the revolutionary connection between the sensual and the spiritual. In Teorema, transcendence is not attained by morality, repression or chastity, but through bodily pleasure experienced through an elusive angel-stranger.

Contrary to what some critics at the time claimed, Teorema is not a celebration of sexual freedom. Pasolini was an enigmatic, often ‘contradictory’ observer. His communist politics sat side-by-side with a vehement anti-modernism, expressed in his disgust for TV and his opposition to abortion. He was perhaps skeptical of ‘free love’ and ‘sexual liberation’ of the time as the false, sly commodification of sex. Pasolini’s cinema registers dual lessons: the power of the erotic, and its inability to simply be understood through popular notions of sex alone.

*התשלום לאירוע במתכונת שלם.י כפי יכולתך כאשר כל ההכנסות תרומה למערך סלי המזון של תרבות של סולידריות.
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*בבית של סולידריות אין מקום להתנהגות גזענית, טרנספובית, סקסיסטית והטרדות/אלימות מכל סוג.
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