Title from menu screen. Originally released as motion pictures, 1969-2013. Accompanying booklet (56 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm) comprises essays by Patrick A. Rumble and David Bordwell, a conversation with Paolo Gioli conducted by Giacomo Daniele Fragapane, filmnotes by Paolo Gioli, a Gioli biography, and a Gioli discography. Special features: Paolo Gioli : film liberi in libertà = free films made freely / by Patrick A. Rumble (68 min.) (2008); Rosso di Land = Land's red / by Paolo Vampa and Giovanni Cappello (2014) (22 min.).
Contents:
(1973) (6:44) ; Farfallio = Traces of traces (1969) (6:54) ; Commutazioni con mutazione = Commutations with mutation (1969) (6:39) ; Quando i volti si tòccano = When faces touch (2012) (6:46) ; Quando i corpi si tòccano = When bodies touch (2012) (3:23) ; Tessitura calda = Hot weaving (2013) (7:01) -- Double positive-negative: Immagini disturbate da un intenso parassita = Images disturbed by an intense parasite (1970) (36:29) ; Del tuffarsi e dell'annegarsi = On diving and drowning (1971) (9:21) ; Hilarisdoppio = Hilarisdouble (1973) (25:13) ; Cineforon (1972) (11:00) ; Immagini reali, immagini virtuali = Real images, virtual images (1972) (10:37) ; Traumatografo = Traumatograph (1973) (25:12) -- Stroboscopic films: Secondo il mio occhio di vetro = According to my glass eye (1971) (10:47) ; Figure instabili nella vegetazione = Unstable figures amidst vegetation (1973) (6:44) ; Farfallio = Photo finish figures (2009) (8:58) -- Homages: Volto sorpreso al buio = Face caught in the dark (1995) (9:30) -- Pinhole films: Film stenopeico (L'uomo senza macchina da presa) = Pinhole film (The man without a movie camera) (1973-1981-1989) (13:26) ; Natura obscura (2013) (7:46) -- Found footage: Anonimatografo = Anonymatograph (1972) (25:55) ; Quando la pellicola è calda = When the film gets hot (1974) (20:33) ; L'operatore perforato (1979) (9:13) ; Interlinea = Frameline (2008) (6:47) ; I volti dell'anonimo = Faces by an unknown photographer (2009) (10:33) -- Animated films: Piccolo film decomposto = Little decomposed film (1986) (15:22) ; Filmarilyn (1992) (8:42) ; Children (2008) (5:47) -- Slit-scan films: Filmfinish (1986-1989) (11:40) ; Volto telato = Face:canvas:texture (2002) (2:42) ; Sommovimenti = Extremotions (2009) (10:48) ; Il finish delle figure = Photo finish figures (2009) (8:58) -- Homages: Rectoinverso The naked killer (2009-2013) (4:45). Finestra davanti a un albero = Window in front of a tree (1989) (12:21) ; Metamorfòso = Metamorphic (1991) (12:41) ; Immagini travolte dalla ruota di Duchamp = Images overtaken by the wheel of Duchamp (1994) (12:12) ; Rothkofilm (2008) (5:02) -- Other formats: Schermo-schermo = Screen-screen (1976) (16:37) ; Il votto inciso = The graven face (1984) (20:03) ; Rectoinverso (2009-2013) (4:45).
Summary:
Thirty-eight short films by Italian experimental filmmaker Paolo Gioli which express his playfully deconstructive attitude towards motion picture technology as seen in his early hand-painted films, his unusual manipulations of camera mechanisms and optics, and his unique interest in homemade movie cameras and pinhole cinematography.
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