Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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

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

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

From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition...

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

Executed and printed with two hands, that is to say, made using all possible means of imprinting the right and arm freshly applied ink, sand paper,...

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

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!...

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...

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

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

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