Paolo Gioli Movies
- 1986
Piccolo film decomposto
Piccolo film decomposto51986HD
This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier...
- 1973
Futurist Europe
Futurist Europe01973HD
Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.
- 1969
Commutations with Mutations
Commutations with Mutations51969HD
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...
- 1992
Filmarilyn
Filmarilyn61992HD
Composed of still images from several photographs of the actress and pop icon Marilyn Monroe that have been manually transferred to film frame by...
- 1972
According to My Glass Eye
According to My Glass Eye61972HD
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...
- 1991
Metamorphic
Metamorphic61991HD
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....
- 1994
Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp
Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp51994HD
"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...
- 2008
Children
Children02008HD
"I have always been interested in the sequencing of images in books, where the possibility exists of imposing movement onto still images. Even this...
- 1989
When the Eye Quakes
When the Eye Quakes61989HD
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!...
- 1986
Filmfinish
Filmfinish51986HD
This film was constructed using the so-called “photo-finish” technique employed in sporting events. The same principle was applied,...
- 2013
Natura Obscura
Natura Obscura62013HD
A film made a single batch of 45 pin holes in a 50 cm hollow tube.
- 1972
Of Diving and of Drowning
Of Diving and of Drowning5.51972HD
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...
- 1973
Hilarisdoppio
Hilarisdoppio01973HD
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...
- 1973
Cineforon
Cineforon01973HD
A filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently...
- 1984
The Naked Killer
The Naked Killer01984HD
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...
- 2007
Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely
Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely02007HD
Feature-length retrospective interview with Italian avant-garde filmmaker Paolo Gioli.
- 1989
Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)
Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)61989HD
Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.
- 2009
I volti dell’Anonimo
I volti dell’Anonimo02009HD
"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...
- 1993
Flutter
Flutter01993HD
Cinematic flicker: flicker is introduced into the flutter of butterflies shot from small books. My intention was, here as elsewhere, to animate what...
- 1972
Anonimatografo
Anonimatografo61972HD
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...