Paolo Gioli Movies

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,...

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...

Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.

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

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

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

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

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!...

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

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...

This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier...

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...

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

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

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....

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

"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...

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