Paolo Gioli
Biography
Paolo Gioli was born in Sarzano di Rovigo in 1942; he studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Venice and then in New York, where he came into contact with the New American Cinema, the New York School, and where he met Leo Castelli and Martha Jackson. In 1970 he settled in Rome where he frequented the authors of the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente and the Filmstudio, and started to produce his own films. He moved to Milan in 1976 and focused his attention on photography: in this period he started using polaroid photos as a powerful means to broaden his research on instant photography, printing his work on different materials such as paper and canvas. Gioli is considered one of the most important photographers and film makers of his generation, and has held numerous solo exhibits in some of the most important museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the MoMA in New York and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
Personal Details
Movies (46)
Land's Red
Director (Directing)
2014
Natura Obscura
Director (Directing)
2013
Tessitura calda
Director (Directing)
2013
When Faces Touch
Director (Directing)
2012
When Bodies Touch
Director (Directing)
2012
Extremotions
Director (Directing)
2009
I volti dell’Anonimo
Director (Directing)
2009
Il finish delle figure
Director (Directing)
2009
Rectoinverso
Director (Directing)
2009
Rothkofilm
Director (Directing)
2008
Children
Director (Directing)
2008
Frameline
Director (Directing)
2008
Paolo Gioli: Free Films Made Freely
as Himself
2007
Ritratto di Piero Bargellini
2005
Face : canvas : texture
Director (Directing)
2002
Volto telato
Director (Directing)
2002
Paolo Gioli: Antologia film
Director (Directing)
2002
Face Caught in the Dark
Director (Directing)
1995
Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp
Director (Directing)
1994
Flutter
Director (Directing)
1993
Filmarilyn
Director (Directing)
1992
Metamorphic
Director (Directing)
1991
Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)
Director (Directing)
1989
When the Eye Quakes
Director (Directing)
1989
Finestra davanti ad un albero
Director (Directing)
1989
Piccolo film decomposto
Director (Directing)
1986
Filmfinish
Director (Directing)
1986
The Naked Killer
Director (Directing)
1984
The Graven Face
Director (Directing)
1984
The Perforated Cameraman
as Director
1979
The Screen, Just the Screen
Director (Directing)
1978
When the Film Gets Hot
Director (Directing)
1974
Hilarisdoppio
1973
Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation
Director (Directing)
1973
Cineforon
Director (Directing)
1973
Futurist Europe
Director of Photography (Camera)
1973
Traumatografo
Director (Directing)
1973
According to My Glass Eye
Director (Directing)
1972
Of Diving and of Drowning
Director (Directing)
1972
A come Alice
Co-Director (Directing)
1972
Anonimatografo
Director (Directing)
1972
Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite
Director (Directing)
1970
Real Image / Virtual Image
Director (Directing)
1970
Avant-Garde Prayer
Director of Photography (Camera)
1969
Commutations with Mutations
Director (Directing)
1969
Tracce di tracce
Director (Directing)
1969