Paolo Gioli Movies

  • 2009
    Rectoinverso

    Rectoinverso

    Rectoinverso

    02009HD

    Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

    Rectoinverso
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2009
    Extremotions

    Extremotions

    Extremotions

    02009HD

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

    Extremotions
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    Tessitura calda

    Tessitura calda

    Tessitura calda

    02013HD

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

    Tessitura calda
  • 2012
    When Bodies Touch

    When Bodies Touch

    When Bodies 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 Bodies Touch
  • 1993
    Flutter

    Flutter

    Flutter

    01993HD

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

    Flutter
  • 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
  • 2009
    Il finish delle figure

    Il finish delle figure

    Il finish delle figure

    02009HD

    "Extracted from rolls of 35mm film on which I had made exposures using the photofinish technique. That is, images intended as photography, and...

    Il finish delle figure
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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