Inspired by the film treatment style of a passage from Pasolini’s sprawling, epic novel, Petrolio, Nashashibi has taken the protagonists, the props and the location, transported them into the present day and used them as the departure point for her 16mm film, Carlo’s Vision. The result is a mixture of observational documentary and fiction, in which Carlo, contemplates the long march of a young man and his fiancée, while being towed backwards by three gods, two speaking and one silent. Although he has his back to them he can hear what they are thinking, as two distinct interior monologues. The two prophetic figures provide an interpretation of what Carlo is witnessing, commenting on the past and present governance of Rome, and focusing on class and sexuality as manipulated today by Italy’s power structures.