Paolo Gioli Movies

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".

It is known that Muybridge was at the same time a great photographer and a killer, executioner of his wife’s lover and that into his own...

Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.

It all started with the notorious Buñuelian sliced eyeball, that surprises us every time. The eye of an ox, but still it's the eye of a woman!...

Strains of Wagner's Das Rheingold and African tribal ululations collide with bi-/tri-sected television footage while negative-positive visuals smash...

From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition...

Executed and printed with two hands, that is to say, made using all possible means of imprinting the right and arm freshly applied ink, sand paper,...

Realized on the occasion of one of my photographic exhibitions of the same title dedicated to the Etruscans of Volterra. I intended to bring alive...

"Duchamp is certainly as complex as Joyce and to do something about him, I tried to dedicate to him this small film poem, using only a few images of...

In L’operatore perforato (1979) that plump sprocket hole comes into its own. It multiplies like a virus, riding serenely on the surface, nearly...

The film relates the beliefs the author held for a certain time concerning water and diving into it. It all begins with a dive and with a whirlpool...

A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces,...

A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces,...

I have several English style windows and this and a tree in winter have caused me to think about Fox-Talbot’s window—his first image,...

A film eroticized by prolonged baths in silver salts. Complete exposure of reclining bodies and their lascivious perambulations. Licentious...

Paolo Gioli's cinematic verification of Edwin H. Land's experiment in color perception.

"Faces and figures found on reels of film by an unknown artist from the first few years of the 20th century. I fed the images through what was...

Composed using three different formats, that have been made to co-exist: super-8, 16mm, and 35mm on a single 16mm support, clear leader. The...

"Extracted from rolls of 35mm film on which I had made exposures using the photofinish technique. That is, images intended as photography, and...

Feature-length retrospective interview with Italian avant-garde filmmaker Paolo Gioli.