Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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!...

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

"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...

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,...

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

To split the visual realm in two: one is permeated with a schizo-imaginific detour, the second vibrates in a collateral contrast. When the split...

This film is an accumulation of semi-stroboscopic figures with features invisible to the eye, that remain in the human cerebral cortex located at the...

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

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,...

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