Paolo Gioli Movies

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

This film was shot a frame at the time using laborious extreme optical close-ups. Anonimatograph: the reanimated image of an unknown amateur at the...

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

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...

"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...

Self-shot: a film shot without a camera operator. Sole witness: the movie camera. Fixed, directed at a single expanse, obedient to the orders 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...

Composed of still images from several photographs of the actress and pop icon Marilyn Monroe that have been manually transferred to film frame by...

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called...

A filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently...

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

Traumatografo is a film, the principal purpose of which is to comfort those who fear death by the gallows or scaffold. It is divided into three...

Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.

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...

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called...

A film made a single batch of 45 pin holes in a 50 cm hollow tube.

This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier...

It is well known that the disposition of the images drawn by Escher are neither for animation nor for pre-animation; actually, quite the opposite....

"I have always been interested in the sequencing of images in books, where the possibility exists of imposing movement onto still images. Even this...

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