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When the Eye Quakes.
The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
Paolo Gioli - Program Two

Paolo Gioli in conversation with David Bordwell - Introduction by Patrick Rumble
Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets

The Cinema of Paolo Gioli: Program Two introduction and post-screening discussion with by Patrick Rumble, Paolo Gioli and David Bordwell.

PROGRAM

  • Natura obscura

    Directed by Paolo Gioli.
    Italy, 1969, 16mm, color and b&w, silent, 7 min.
    Print source: Paolo Vampa

With 45 pinholes distributed along a 50 centimeter long hollow tube, I made this film. The purpose was to shoot the seasons... I always shot in the crepuscular half-light of dawn and dusk, since there was too much light during the day. – PG

  • Anonymatograph (Anonimatografo)

    Directed by Paolo Gioli.
    Italy, 1972, 16mm, black & white, 26 min.
    Print source: Paolo Vampa

This film was shot one frame at a time using laborious extreme optical close-ups. Anonimatograph: the reanimated image of an unknown amateur filmmaker at the beginning of the century who become conventional as he settles down, movie camera in hand, indoors and outdoors surrounded by war and by his sisters. – PG

  • Slit-scan Figures (Il finish delle figure)

    Directed by Paolo Gioli.
    Italy, 2009, 16mm, black & white, silent, 9 min.
    Print source: Paolo Vampa

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

  • Children

    Directed by Paolo Gioli.
    Italy, 2008, 16mm, black & white, silent, 6 min.
    Print source: Paolo Vampa

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

  • When Bodies Touch (Quando i corpi si tòccano)

    Italy, 2012, 16mm, black & white, silent, 3 min.
    Print source: Paolo Vampa

A reflection on the material basis of film. Fragments of figures wander, flutter in the swirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. – PG

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