Walter Fasano's Pino is showing exclusively on MUBI in many countries starting October 3, 2021.
The Pascali Museum is a harmonious arrangement of architectural volumes on the sea, flooded by the blinding light of the southern Italian sun.
Located on the urban borders of Polignano, a place of unique and wild beauty, the museum is vaguely isolated, its outlines almost metaphysical. It looks like a interdimensional gateway or an elevator that can connect the sky and the depths of the sea.
In the movie, its large windows overlooking the Mediterranean are the place of the arrival of the "Bachi da Setola," five colorful synthetic animals created by Pino Pascali a few months before his death in an accident at the Muro Torto, a cavernous and material tunnel in the heart of Rome. Pino rides through these tunnels on his motorcycle as he's leaving this plane of reality and entering forever into the history of art, but most of all into our dreams, into our innermost places.
By freeing up the gates, by opening the passages, the movie puts in connection these two places, the museum and the galleries.
The linearity of the past-present-future dissolves and time opens up in a prism. A journey begins in which the very facts of life are arranged according to different logics, opening up to new meanings.