Paolo Gioli Movies

  • 2005
    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

    02005HD

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

    Ritratto di Piero Bargellini
  • 1970
    Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite

    Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite

    Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite

    61970HD

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

    Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite
  • 1969
    Tracce di tracce

    Tracce di tracce

    Tracce di tracce

    01969HD

    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,...

    Tracce di tracce
  • 2002
    Volto telato

    Volto telato

    Volto telato

    02002HD

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

    Volto telato
  • 1973
    Hilarisdoppio

    Hilarisdoppio

    Hilarisdoppio

    01973HD

    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...

    Hilarisdoppio
  • 2012
    When Bodies Touch

    When Bodies Touch

    When Bodies Touch

    02012HD

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

    When Bodies Touch
  • 2013
    Natura Obscura

    Natura Obscura

    Natura Obscura

    62013HD

    A film made a single batch of 45 pin holes in a 50 cm hollow tube.

    Natura Obscura
  • 1974
    When the Film Gets Hot

    When the Film Gets Hot

    When the Film Gets Hot

    01974HD

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

    When the Film Gets Hot
  • 2013
    Tessitura calda

    Tessitura calda

    Tessitura calda

    02013HD

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

    Tessitura calda
  • 1972
    Of Diving and of Drowning

    Of Diving and of Drowning

    Of Diving and of Drowning

    5.51972HD

    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...

    Of Diving and of Drowning
  • 2009
    Extremotions

    Extremotions

    Extremotions

    02009HD

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

    Extremotions
  • 1972
    Anonimatografo

    Anonimatografo

    Anonimatografo

    61972HD

    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...

    Anonimatografo
  • 1989
    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    Finestra davanti ad un albero

    01989HD

    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,...

    Finestra davanti ad un albero
  • 1969
    Commutations with Mutations

    Commutations with Mutations

    Commutations with Mutations

    51969HD

    Composed using three different formats, that have been made to co-exist: super-8, 16mm, and 35mm on a single 16mm support, clear leader. The...

    Commutations with Mutations
  • 1992
    Filmarilyn

    Filmarilyn

    Filmarilyn

    61992HD

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

    Filmarilyn
  • 2008
    Rothkofilm

    Rothkofilm

    Rothkofilm

    02008HD

    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...

    Rothkofilm
  • 1986
    Piccolo film decomposto

    Piccolo film decomposto

    Piccolo film decomposto

    51986HD

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

    Piccolo film decomposto
  • 1973
    Futurist Europe

    Futurist Europe

    Futurist Europe

    01973HD

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

    Futurist Europe
  • 2007
    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely

    02007HD

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

    Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely
  • 2008
    Frameline

    Frameline

    Frameline

    02008HD

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

    Frameline