Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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...

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

In L’operatore perforato (1979) that plump sprocket hole comes into its own. It multiplies like a virus, riding serenely on the surface, nearly...

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...

Feminine undergarments placed over a wooden tablet around which a film, itself impure, has been wound. Dissolving sexual fragments emerge. Whirling...

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

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

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

"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...

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

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...

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

A film eroticized by prolonged baths in silver salts. Complete exposure of reclining bodies and their lascivious perambulations. Licentious...

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

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

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...

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...