WHEN THE EYE TREMBLES: THE CINEMA OF PAOLO GIOLI

A central figure in Italian experimental cinema of the 1970s, Paolo Gioli (1942-2022), drawing on his initial training as a painter, developed a body of work comprising more than thirty films between 1969 and 2017, which accompany and intersect with an internationally recognized photographic oeuvre. Through an eminently "wild" filmmaking approach developed with limited resources, Gioli offers us a composite visual universe of fragments, but also "cinema effects" in their natural state, like so many latent phenomena influencing the historiography of media technologies.

Composed of three essays written between 1995 and 2024, a long unpublished interview with the artist conducted in 2014, and a comprehensive catalog of his filmography, Jean-Michel Bouhours's Quand l'œil tremble ("When the Eye Trembles") proposes a journey through the different facets and multiple inventions of Paolo Gioli's cinematic work. As a preface, the book is introduced by a new essay by Georges Didi-Huberman.

Foreword by Georges Didi-Huberman.
Graphic design: Jean-Louis Chapuis (StudioWarmgrey).
bilingual edition (English / French)
16,5 x 23 cm (softcover)
428 pages (91 ill.)
ISBN : 978-2-490750-16-0
EAN : 9782490750160