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Jean-Michel Bouhours and Emmanuel Lefrant present at the Villa Medici the book When the Eye Trembles: The Cinema of Paolo Gioli by Jean-Michel Bouhours (bilingual edition, Light Cone Editions, 2024), an exploration of Paolo Gioli’s cinema. This presentation is enhanced by a screening of films in 16mm by the Italian master.
"A self-taught painter born in Rovigo (Veneto), Paolo Gioli (1942-2022) turned to photography and experimental cinema in the late 1960s, after a stay in the United States. In Rome, he met members of the short-lived Cooperativa del Cinema indipendente (Gianfranco Baruchello, Tonino de Bernardi, Massimo Bacigalupo, etc.) and remained close to filmmakers such as Alfredo Leonardi and Pier Farri.
Paolo Gioli’s unparalleled ingenuity and imagination have enabled him to make complex films in total autarky. Many of his films question the latent content of mass media: Paolo Gioli comments on, analyzes and interprets these images, recontextualizing them within his own mental and visual universe.
What’s more, his inventions (such as the pinhole camera and filmfinish) shake up the doxa, and sometimes the historicity, of cinema.
Paolo Gioli revisits the work of precursors such as Étienne-Jules Marey, Henry-Fox Talbot, Nicéphore Niépce and Eadweard Muybridge, always in search of an original purity, and gives his experiments, inspired by the observation of Nature, an epistemological dimension: “Stripping away everything, reducing more and more to reach a high level with little, producing, expressing with nothing, hands in pockets”.
In one of his last research, inspired by the inventor of the Polaroid Edwin Land’s studies on the colors representation, he contributes additional reflections to Goethe’s observations on the psycho-perception of colors (On Color Theory). A short video excerpt of Paolo Gioli’s experiment will be shown."
– Jean-Michel Bouhours
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DEL TUFFARSI E DELL'ANNEGARSI
by Paolo GIOLI 1972 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 10' 25 |
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TRAUMATOGRAFO
by Paolo GIOLI 1973 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 25' 00 |
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PICCOLO FILM DECOMPOSTO
by Paolo GIOLI 1986 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 15' 00 |
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FILMFINISH
by Paolo GIOLI 1986-1989 / 16mm / b&w / silent / 12' 27 |
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NATURA OBSCURA
by Paolo GIOLI 2003-2013 / 16mm / color / silent / 8' 10 |
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Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1 00187 Rome Italie |
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| rates | Free entrance |