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Pasquale Scimeca
Pasquale Scimeca was born in 1956 in Alinusa (Sicily). In 1989 he founded the independent production cooperative Arbash Film, with which he wrote, photographed, and directed his first 16mm feature film, La donzelletta. In 1993, his first 35mm feature film, Il giorno di San Sebastiano, was chosen for the section Vetrina del cinema italiano at the Venice Film Festival, and won the Golden Globe of the Foreign Press Association for the best first film. Placido Rizzotto was also presented in Venice in 2000. In 2002 directed Gli indesiderabili, that premiered in Locarno.
The sacred representations of Good Friday that are known as the “Passion” first appeared and began to spread in the year 1000, and one of the aims of these representations was to spread the hate of Jews among Christians. Yet of course Christ himself was a Jew, beginning with the Hebrew name Yahoshua (Joseph in English), the name of one of the prophets of Judaism, the prophet who leads his people to the Promised Land.
For today’s Christians, accepting Christ’s Hebrew origins is not of secondary importance: it is the central issue to be resolved if the theology of the Third Millennium is to overcome artificial divisions and to give back the word of Christ to humanity. In fact, only the Hebrew Christ can speak to all men: Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, laymen, and atheists. Because it is in his Word that the truth lies hidden.
(Pasquale Scimeca)
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