Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...