Paolo Gioli Movies

  • 2014
    Land's Red

    Land's Red

    Land's Red

    02014HD

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

    Land's Red
  • 1995
    Face Caught in the Dark

    Face Caught in the Dark

    Face Caught in the Dark

    01995HD

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

    Face Caught in the Dark
  • 1973
    Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation

    Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation

    Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation

    01973HD

    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...

    Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation
  • 1986
    Filmfinish

    Filmfinish

    Filmfinish

    51986HD

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

    Filmfinish
  • 1991
    Metamorphic

    Metamorphic

    Metamorphic

    61991HD

    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....

    Metamorphic
  • 2008
    Frameline

    Frameline

    Frameline

    02008HD

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

    Frameline
  • 1970
    Real Image / Virtual Image

    Real Image / Virtual Image

    Real Image / Virtual Image

    01970HD

    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...

    Real Image / Virtual Image
  • 2009
    I volti dell’Anonimo

    I volti dell’Anonimo

    I volti dell’Anonimo

    02009HD

    "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...

    I volti dell’Anonimo
  • 1973
    Traumatografo

    Traumatografo

    Traumatografo

    01973HD

    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...

    Traumatografo
  • 1992
    Filmarilyn

    Filmarilyn

    Filmarilyn

    61992HD

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

    Filmarilyn
  • 1986
    Piccolo film decomposto

    Piccolo film decomposto

    Piccolo film decomposto

    51986HD

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

    Piccolo film decomposto
  • 1969
    Commutations with Mutations

    Commutations with Mutations

    Commutations with Mutations

    51969HD

    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...

    Commutations with Mutations
  • 1973
    Futurist Europe

    Futurist Europe

    Futurist Europe

    01973HD

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

    Futurist Europe
  • 2013
    Natura Obscura

    Natura Obscura

    Natura Obscura

    62013HD

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

    Natura Obscura
  • 2002
    Volto telato

    Volto telato

    Volto telato

    02002HD

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

    Volto telato
  • 2002
    Face : canvas : texture

    Face : canvas : texture

    Face : canvas : texture

    5.52002HD

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

    Face : canvas : texture
  • 2012
    When Faces Touch

    When Faces Touch

    When Faces Touch

    02012HD

    A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces,...

    When Faces Touch
  • 1978
    The Screen, Just the Screen

    The Screen, Just the Screen

    The Screen, Just the Screen

    01978HD

    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...

    The Screen, Just the Screen
  • 1973
    Cineforon

    Cineforon

    Cineforon

    01973HD

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

    Cineforon
  • 1989
    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    01989HD

    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,...

    Finestra davanti ad un albero