Fiction and Drama Walter Siti Photograph this ass, servant! Ellen Altfest, The Hand . 2011, oil on canvas. 6 1/4 × 8 5/8”. Photo by Ben Westley. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube Gallery. © Ellen Altfest. As always with Pasolini, one has to start at the end. The following story is set during the days leading up to the writer and filmmaker’s mysterious death fifty years ago, and it is no doubt informed and haunted by that tragic event — but more specifically I’d like to start with the end of Walter Siti’s story itself. In the early 2000s, a relatively unremarkable photographer and frequent heroin user in his fifties named Dino Pedriali meets with the scholar editing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collected writings. The reason for their meeting is both simple and insolubly complex: In October 1975, not long before Pasolini’s murder, Pedriali, then 25 years old, took a series of photos that would become infamous.…