My proposed project is a series of large scale, digitally manipulated photographs, inspired by the early films of Pier Paulo Pasolini. The photographs would explore the specific Roman suburbs where the director lived and worked. I will seek to include portraits of people who appeared as “extras” in Pasolini’s films (many have become poets and artists) and to have them star now in scenes that echo their original performance. I will seek to integrate memories of Pasolini’s fiction with the facts of their lives. The images would be inspired by the director’s visual style, his use of light and “poetic realism,” but my works would also acknowledge the vast differences and transformations that have occurred since the postwar Rome of the 1950s and 1960s. My intention would be to register the complexity of the present and seek its dimensions in a beautiful and melancholy cinematic history.