Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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

Feature-length retrospective interview with Italian avant-garde filmmaker Paolo Gioli.

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 film is an accumulation of semi-stroboscopic figures with features invisible to the eye, that remain in the human cerebral cortex located at the...

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...

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

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

Cinematic flicker: flicker is introduced into the flutter of butterflies shot from small books. My intention was, here as elsewhere, to animate what...

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...

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

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,...

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

"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...

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...

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

Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.

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...