Paolo Gioli Movies

"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.

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

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

"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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

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.