erotic film like Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Sadistic purity of transfer of raw emotions from the reading of the work of the Marquis de Sade “The 120 days of Sodom. Engraving and painting on film

Three libertines, occupying high positions in the political, religious and social spheres, gather in a castle to enjoy the benefits of exacerbated power. For the good progress of their celebrations, they hire prostitutes and fuckers and kidnap young people to satisfy their most outrageous desires. In 120 days of pure debauchery, the limits of human imagination are gradually tested to the last consequences.

"The final format is a 16mm blowup from an original Super 8 film, comprised of sequences shot off of a television monitor, which in turn played a videotape of a 35mm film, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom. The images Fogel kidnapped are those of several young men, some nude, seemingly alone together in a small, ancient-looking bedchamber. The differences in frame-rate between camera and monitor cause black horizontal bands to strobe languidly up and down the screen; the five layers of media transmission have washed out the original colors into an electric blue-gray . . . The total effect is one of deep, erotic longing. It presents the metaphor of cinema as an eternally youthful, luminously beautiful 20-year-old boy, who is nevertheless slipping away, through layers of time, into a tantalizingly unreachable distance." —Ed Halter

A documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini and his film 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann follow him around engaging him in a long and extraordinary interview/conversation. The interview turns into a long, clear-sighted and violent attack on society that accompanies photos of the set in a surprising juxtaposition of film and reality, revealing Pasolini's metaphorical portrait of modernity.

Behind the scenes footage of Pasolini and crew filming 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Multiple pass destruction of Pasolini's Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma. Dedicated to Mark Lapore who encouraged the work.

Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini