Paolo Gioli Movies

  • 2005
    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    02005HD

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

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini
  • 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
  • 1989
    When the Eye Quakes

    When the Eye Quakes

    When the Eye Quakes

    61989HD

    It all started with the notorious Buñuelian sliced eyeball, that surprises us every time. The eye of an ox, but still it's the eye of a woman!...

    When the Eye Quakes
  • 1994
    Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp

    Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp

    Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp

    51994HD

    "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...

    Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp
  • 1972
    A come Alice

    A come Alice

    A come Alice

    01972HD

    A come Alice
  • 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
  • 1974
    When the Film Gets Hot

    When the Film Gets Hot

    When the Film Gets Hot

    01974HD

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

    When the Film Gets Hot
  • 1972
    Of Diving and of Drowning

    Of Diving and of Drowning

    Of Diving and of Drowning

    5.51972HD

    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...

    Of Diving and of Drowning
  • 1984
    The Graven Face

    The Graven Face

    The Graven Face

    01984HD

    Realized on the occasion of one of my photographic exhibitions of the same title dedicated to the Etruscans of Volterra. I intended to bring alive...

    The Graven Face
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1972
    Anonimatografo

    Anonimatografo

    Anonimatografo

    61972HD

    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...

    Anonimatografo
  • 1973
    Hilarisdoppio

    Hilarisdoppio

    Hilarisdoppio

    01973HD

    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...

    Hilarisdoppio
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    02007HD

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

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely
  • 2008
    Children

    Children

    Children

    02008HD

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

    Children
  • 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
  • 2009
    Rectoinverso

    Rectoinverso

    Rectoinverso

    02009HD

    Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

    Rectoinverso