Paolo Gioli Movies

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...

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 known that Muybridge was at the same time a great photographer and a killer, executioner of his wife’s lover and that into his own...

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

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

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

Composed of still images from several photographs of the actress and pop icon Marilyn Monroe that have been manually transferred to film frame by...

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.

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

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

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 filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently...

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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