Paolo Gioli Filmes

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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,...

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".

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

"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...