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Paolo Gioli (b. 1942)

Birthplace:
Sarzano di Rovigo

Born:
October 12, 1942

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Co-Director:
1972  A come Alice

Director:
1969  Commutations with Mutations
1969  Tracce di tracce
1970  Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite
1970  Real Image / Virtual Image
1972  A come Alice
1972  According to My Glass Eye
1972  Anonimatografo
1972  Of Diving and of Drowning
1973  Cineforon
1973  Hilarisdoppio
1973  Traumatografo
1973  Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation
1974  When the Film Gets Hot
1978  The Screen, Just the Screen
1979  The Perforated Cameraman
1984  The Graven Face
1984  The Naked Killer
1986  Filmfinish
1986  Piccolo film decomposto
1989  Finestra davanti ad un albero
1989  Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)
1989  When the Eye Quakes
1991  Metamorphic
1992  Filmarilyn
1993  Flutter
1994  Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp
1995  Face Caught in the Dark
2002  Face : canvas : texture
2002  Paolo Gioli: Antologia film
2002  Volto telato
2008  Children
2008  Frameline
2008  Rothkofilm
2009  Extremotions
2009  I volti dell’Anonimo
2009  Il finish delle figure
2009  Rectoinverso
2012  When Bodies Touch
2012  When Faces Touch
2013  Natura Obscura
2013  Tessitura calda
2014  Land's Red

Director of Photography:
1969  Avant-Garde Prayer
1969  Commutations with Mutations
1969  Tracce di tracce
1970  Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite
1970  Real Image / Virtual Image
1972  A come Alice
1972  According to My Glass Eye
1972  Anonimatografo
1972  Of Diving and of Drowning
1973  Cineforon
1973  Futurist Europe
1973  Hilarisdoppio
1973  Traumatografo
1973  Unstable Figures Amidst Vegetation
1974  When the Film Gets Hot
1978  The Screen, Just the Screen
1979  The Perforated Cameraman
1984  The Graven Face
1984  The Naked Killer
1986  Filmfinish
1986  Piccolo film decomposto
1989  Finestra davanti ad un albero
1989  Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)
1989  When the Eye Quakes
1991  Metamorphic
1992  Filmarilyn
1993  Flutter
1994  Images Overtaken by the Wheel of Duchamp
1995  Face Caught in the Dark
2002  Face : canvas : texture
2002  Paolo Gioli: Antologia film
2002  Volto telato
2008  Children
2008  Frameline
2008  Rothkofilm
2009  Extremotions
2009  I volti dell’Anonimo
2009  Il finish delle figure
2009  Rectoinverso
2012  When Bodies Touch
2012  When Faces Touch
2013  Natura Obscura
2013  Tessitura calda
2014  Land's Red

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