“… I was going to stage a reunion party for them, as if still needing to verify for myself (to challenge the part of me that has an absolute belief in what I see and somehow retains forever, an uneasy trace of that belief) that everything was actually fine and it was all ‘just a film’.
I expected to find maybe a third of the original actors from the film. I had a structure planned; … it was all going to be quite elegant, composed and knowing! (In retrospect, what I had imagined and filmed, would have been pretty vacuous if exhibited in that form). However, after three months research, foraging through the Pasolini foundation archives, and speaking with some of the people involved in the production of the film (including Laura Betti) I had only found one of the original sixteen adolescents from the film! Her name was Antiniska Nemour, now living in the north of Italy and working as a dental assistant. I was becoming worried that my planned event was not going to work.
