Paolo Gioli Movies

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

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

To split the visual realm in two: one is permeated with a schizo-imaginific detour, the second vibrates in a collateral contrast. When the split...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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!...

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

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

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 filmic homage to the German mime Helfrid Foron, a student of Etienne Decroux who worked with acrobats and tight-rope walkers. He frequently...

Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.

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

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...

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

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....

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

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