Paolo Gioli Movies

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

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

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 eroticized by prolonged baths in silver salts. Complete exposure of reclining bodies and their lascivious perambulations. Licentious...

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

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 film that has chosen as its protagonist its own negative and will remain committed to that choice until the very end. More precisely, nearly...

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 film is an accumulation of semi-stroboscopic figures with features invisible to the eye, that remain in the human cerebral cortex located at the...

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...

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...

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

"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...

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....

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...

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