Satyricon 9 – Scene V: The Art Gallery

(Previously – Satyricon 8 – Scene IV: Encolpius Rejected / The Earthquake)

In the novel, Encolpius goes to an art gallery (section 83), as he does here in the film, after being spurned by Giton. His activity here is much like us watching this movie, looking at isolated pretty things (often separated from their original context). Note how, at the beginning of the episode, he is again positioned off-center (frame left and low).

For this scene, Fellini had the same artist who did the graffiti wall...