To commemorate 50 years since the passing of Pier Paolo Pasolini – and to accompany Conor Donlon’s retrospective in Another Man’s Winter/Spring 2026 issue – Simon Parris brings together the atmospheric sounds and sonics that underscore the director’s visionary catalogue.
1. J.S. Bach ‘St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Pt. II - No. 68 Choral (Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder)’ (Featured in Accattone, 1961)
2. Kathy Acker with Nox ‘Love, Emily’ (1987) (Kathy Acker reading excerpts from her book ’My Death, My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini’)
3. Antonio Vivaldi ‘Concerto per la viola d’amore part ii d minor’ (Featured in Mamma Roma, 1962)
4. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith ‘Pasolini’ (2024)
5. Antonio Vivaldi ‘Bassoon Concerto in D Minor, RV 481 II. Larghetto (Arranged by Gian Francesco Malipiero)’ (Featured in Mamma Roma, 1962)
6. Odetta ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Live)’ (1960) (Featured in l vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964)
7. Pier Paolo Pasolini reading ‘Supplica A Mia Madre’
8. Diamanda Galás ‘Supplica a Mia Madre’ (2010)
9. Blind Willie Johnson ‘Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground’ (1927) (Featured in l vangelo secondo Matteo, 1964)
10. Ennio Morricone ‘Aforismi’ (Featured in Uccellacci e uccellini, 1964)
11. Ennio Morricone ‘Teatrino All’aperto’ (Featured in Uccellacci e uccellini, 1964)
12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‘String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 Dissonant I. Adagio - Allegro’ (Featured in Edipo re, 1967)
13. Erik Friedlander & Teho Teardo ‘Trionfo Della Notte’ (From ’Giorni Rubati’, music inspired by the poems of Pier Paolo Pasolini)
14. Ted Curson ‘Tears for Dolphy’ (1964) (Featured in Teorema, 1968)
15. Laura Betti ‘La Parade Du Suicide’ (1962) (Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini)
16. David Wallraf ‘Porcile’ (2025) (From ‘Crudeltá Necessaria’, recorded in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, 2023-2024. Sound design fragments from Pasolini’s films Edipo Re (1967), Porcile (1969) and Medea (1969) were recorded to quarter-inch tape loops and appear throughout these selections.)
17. Artisans performing a play ‘Zesa Viola’ (Mediaeval Neapolitan song, featured in Il Decameron, 1971)
18. John Doherty ‘The Wee Weaver’ (Featured in I racconti di Canterbury, 1972)
19. Scott Walker ‘Farmer in the City (Remembering Pasolini)’ (1995)
20. Ennio Morricone ‘Tema del demone (Primo)’ (Featured in Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte, 1974)
21. Ennio Morricone ’Salò o le 120 giornate di sodoma’ (Featured in Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975)
22. Bolesław Wawrzyn ‘Ostia. The Death Of Pasolini. I’ (2018) (Waves recorded at Ostia beach during last days of December 2017)
23. Coil ‘Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)’ (1986)
24. Terence Hannum ‘Precious Element' (2022) (Incorporates a recording of applause at Pier Paolo Pasolini's funeral)
25. Ennio Morricone ‘Funerale’ (Featured in Uccellacci e uccellini)
26. John Waters ‘Prayer to Pasolini’ (2021)
27. Golem Mechanique ‘Le lacrime di Maria’ (2025) (“Homage/hymns/meditations on the highly irregular circumstances and questions/mysteries of the passing of the soul of master artist Pier Paolo Pasolini.”)
