This program brings together Pasolini's contributions to three omnibus films. The Earth as Seen from the Moon is Pasolini's episode in Le streghe (The Witches), produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Pasolini features Totò and Ninetto Davoli (the team from Hawks and Sparrows) as an eccentric old widower and his half-wit son. They are visited by a deaf-mute beauty, Silvana Mangano, who sets about putting their squalid existence into domestic order. Filmed in fantastic colors that, apart from Davoli's green hair, reflect those Pasolini found in such impoverished seaside resort areas as Ostia, The Earth as Seen from the Moon is a surrealist fable. Its characters, Pasolini noted, were not so much creations as exaggerations of what Pasolini saw in the clownish Totò and the “magical” Davoli. What Are the Clouds?, Pasolini's segment of De Laurentiis' Capriccio all'italiana, again features Totò, along with other popular Italian comics chosen by Pasolini for their “plebeian quality.” The film draws on popular puppet theater in retelling the story of Othello using “human puppets”: Ninetto Davoli as Othello, Laura Betti as Desdemona, and Totò as Iago. The Paper Flower Sequence, Pasolini's episode in Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger), is based on the Gospel parable of “the innocent fig tree”-in which Christ curses the fig tree that has not yet produced its fruit because it is only March. Ninetto Davoli is pictured walking up the Via Nazionale “without a thought in his head,” as global events pass above him “like shadows.” Though God exhorts him to be aware, “like the fig tree he does not understand” (Pasolini). The film concludes that “there are moments in history when one cannot be innocent . . . when not to be aware is to be guilty.”