at an international conference on pier paolo pasolini at nandan ii on thursday several pasolini experts from italy spoke of the directors multifaceted genius speaking about the relation between pasolinis cinema and his writings walter siti professor of comparative italian literature at the university of laquila said pasolini considered poetry as a verbal mechanism that served to capture life or to capture the beauty that existed before verse one of the most common formal images in his poetry is the poet who motionless recounts a life that runs by him he added that pasolini regarded the movie camera as a more powerful poetic technique capable of capturing life without metaphors highlighting the poetic element in pasolinis cinema within the context of italian postneorealism noted writer and critic giovanni spagnoletti said pasolinis cinema is the written language of reality because the relationship between audiovisual recording and profilmic reality is the same one as that between written and spoken language speaking on pasolinis relation with india which culminated in a book published in 1961 literary critic and essayist filippo la porta said for pasolini there is no vulgarity in india he found the smiles of its people as smiles of sweetness not of joy there is no idealisation of the squalor of daily life nor any serene nostalgia of this hellish storm la porta also referred to pasolinis democratic and marxist sensitivity which lingered over the hugely mobile civic consciousness and the great virtue of tolerance that moved a ruling class inspired by the ideals of gandhi and nehru while discussing pasolinis writings writer and critic alfonso berardinelli said twentyfive years after his death he had become a requisite element of italian cultural imagination pasolinis concern with poverty and the indigenous cultures of specific regions are recurring themes linking almost all his films from accatone 1961 to his final denigrated vision salo or the 120 days of sodom 1975 it is seen above all in miserable characters that are outside of historical or bourgeois consciousness such marginal sections also figure in his novels like ragazzi di vita 1955 and a violent life 1959 in the gospel according to st mathew pasolini reconstructed the gospel by an analogy and portrayed christ as an intellectual among the poor who were available for revolution in his words i the nonbeliever was telling the story through the eyes of a believer moderated by shankarlal bhattacharya the conference included an interactive session with the audience