Paolo Gioli Movies

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.

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

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 film was shot a frame at the time using laborious extreme optical close-ups. Anonimatograph: the reanimated image of an unknown amateur at the...

"Extracted from rolls of 35mm film on which I had made exposures using the photofinish technique. That is, images intended as photography, and...

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...

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

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

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

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 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 several English style windows and this and a tree in winter have caused me to think about Fox-Talbot’s window—his first image,...

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...

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,...

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

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