Fellini Satyricon

Fellini Satyricon

From  Federico Fellini’s letter to Peter Goldfarb about the television program
(The notebook of a director)
... In the case of Satyricon, I have approached university professors, expert in
ancient art,
priests, magicians, astrologers, aficionados of ritualistic magic: people and characters about whom it is a shame not to attempt a portrait, because what they have told me, what they have revealed to me, the things that I have seen done, the thing they have showed me, the creatures with home they live, and their madness, constitute already in themselves the most interesting of film. 

Narcissus...

Ganymede...

Apollo, who turned the young man's shadow into a flower.

All the myths speak to us of love... 

of unrivalled unions.

But I took into my heart a cruel guest.

I'm a poet.

You might ask, "Why are you dressed so poorly?"

A passion for art never made anyone rich.

My name is Eumolpus.

The masterpieces you see in this gallery confirm our current lack of energy.

Today no one would know how to paint like this.

So what brought on this sad state?

The desire for money!

Once upon a time, man's ideal was virtue, pure and simple.

That's why the liberal arts flourished.

Exdoxus grew old on a mountain studying the movement of the planets.

Lysippus kept drawing the same model his whole life...

and died of hunger.

But we, with our drinking and whoring...

don't even know the masterpieces that exist now.

What about dialectical discussion?

What happened to astronomy?

Where is philosophy that once led the way for us?

Don't be surprised that the art of painting is dead...

when now we find more beauty in pot of gold...

than in the works of Apelles or Phydias.

Those crazy Greeks!



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