Paolo Gioli Movies
- 2014

Land's Red
Land's Red02014HD
Paolo Gioli's cinematic verification of Edwin H. Land's experiment in color perception.
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- 1995

Face Caught in the Dark
Face Caught in the Dark01995HD
From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition...
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- 1973

Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation
Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation01973HD
This film is an accumulation of semi-stroboscopic figures with features invisible to the eye, that remain in the human cerebral cortex located at the...
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- 1986

Filmfinish
Filmfinish51986HD
This film was constructed using the so-called “photo-finish” technique employed in sporting events. The same principle was applied,...
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- 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....
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- 2008

Frameline
Frameline02008HD
Made from fragments of a found porno film, where the frameline, which divides the images, becomes a mysterious plastic form, struggling in the center...
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- 1970

Real Image / Virtual Image
Real Image / Virtual Image01970HD
A film that has chosen as its protagonist its own negative and will remain committed to that choice until the very end. More precisely, nearly...
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- 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...
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- 1973

Traumatografo
Traumatografo01973HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1973

Futurist Europe
Futurist Europe01973HD
Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.
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- 2013

Natura Obscura
Natura Obscura62013HD
A film made a single batch of 45 pin holes in a 50 cm hollow tube.
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- 2002

Volto telato
Volto telato02002HD
This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called...
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- 2002

Face : canvas : texture
Face : canvas : texture5.52002HD
This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called...
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- 2012

When Faces Touch
When Faces Touch02012HD
A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces,...
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- 1978

The Screen, Just the Screen
The Screen, Just the Screen01978HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 1989

Finestra davanti ad un albero
Finestra davanti ad un albero01989HD
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,...
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