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...

This film was constructed using the so-called “photo-finish” technique employed in sporting events. The same principle was applied,...

This is not a short documentary on Rothko, but rather my reflection on his canvasses, that become so deeply assimilated with the screen, frames 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...

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

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!...

Feminine undergarments placed over a wooden tablet around which a film, itself impure, has been wound. Dissolving sexual fragments emerge. Whirling...

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

"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...

Made from fragments of a found porno film, where the frameline, which divides the images, becomes a mysterious plastic form, struggling in the center...

I have a fixed idea about the screen that while it has no depth, we know that it is sprayed by 24 frames a second at the same point for an infinite...

Cinematic flicker: flicker is introduced into the flutter of butterflies shot from small books. My intention was, here as elsewhere, to animate what...

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

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 film completely excavated by rephotographing rolls of 35mm negative containing images made with the photo-finish (slit scan) technique, the...

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...

An artist's self-portrait problematizing the choice between tradition and the avant-garde, between being free or being disciplined.

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

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