“Embodying Pasolini” – Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard from Malta Festival on Teatr Telewizji

4/09/2025
Tilda Swinton

We have wonderful news for you! Very soon we will once again meet the extraordinary duo of creators – Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and fashion curator and historian Olivier Saillard.

Presented once a year in a chosen place around the world, the performance Embodying Pasolini in 2025 was shown exclusively at Malta Festival in Poznań and recorded by television cameras. Now – thanks to the unique collaboration between the artists, the festival, and Teatr Telewizji – the whole of Poland will be able to see it.

On November 3rd at 8:30 p.m. on TVP1, you will be able to watch this remarkable, original tribute to the legendary Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. On stage, Tilda Swinton tries on nearly thirty garments – dresses, coats, and hats from Pasolini’s films – designed by Danilo Donati and crafted in the Farani atelier. Embodying Pasolini is a moving encounter of cinema, fashion, and memory – a performance in which costumes gain new life, and Swinton becomes a medium through which history speaks. Her presence highlights how these now orphaned objects, once separated from the bodies of actors and the films they belonged to, can surprise, acquire new meanings, and regain their former depth and value.

Don’t miss this event!

📺 November 3rd, 2025, 8:30 p.m., TVP1

More about the performance: https://malta-festival.pl/en/program-event/embodying-pasolini/

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