Ro.go.pa.g.(1963) May 2026

On the set of a film about the Crucifixion (starring Orson Welles as the director), a starving extra named Stracci finally gets enough food to eat but dies of indigestion while filming his scene on the cross .

Rossellini examines the intersection of technology (video) and psychological obsession, critiquing how modern media can distort human relationships. 2. "Il Nuovo Mondo" (The New World) Director: Jean-Luc Godard

It captures a specific moment in cinema history where Neorealism (Rossellini) met the Avant-Garde (Godard and Pasolini) . Ro.Go.Pa.G.(1963)

A sharp, satirical look at the "Economic Miracle" in Italy and how mass consumption replaces genuine human identity. Why It Matters

This is the most famous segment. Pasolini was charged with blasphemy and given a four-month suspended sentence for his portrayal of the scene . It remains a powerful critique of the class divide and the commercialization of religion . Il Pollo Ruspante " (Free-Range Chicken) Director: Ugo Gregoretti On the set of a film about the

A flight attendant is relentlessly pursued by an American tourist who has become obsessed with her "innocent" image from a home movie .

A middle-class family attempts to follow the modern "rules" of consumerism, guided by the dehumanizing instructions of a speaker at a marketing convention . "Il Nuovo Mondo" (The New World) Director: Jean-Luc

Set in a Paris where an atomic explosion has occurred high in the atmosphere, a man notices the people around him—including his girlfriend—have begun to act with a strange, detached logic .