Paolo Gioli Movies

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

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...

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,...

"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...

"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...