An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker
Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Paolo Gioli (1942-2022), a central figure in the Italian
experimental cinema of the 70s, developed, from his initial training as a painter, a body of work of over thirty films between 1969 and 2017, that parallel and intersect with his internationally acclaimed photographic work. Gioli's eminently "savage" approach to filmmaking, developed with limited resources, offers us a composite visual universe of fragments, but also "cinema-effects'' in their natural state, like latent phenomena challenging the historiography of media technologies.
Featuring three essays written between 1995 and 2024, a long previously unpublished interview with the artist conducted in 2014, and a catalog raisonné of his filmography,
When the Eye Trembles offers a journey through the many facets and inventions of Paolo Gioli's cinematographic work. As a preface, the book is introduced by a new essay by
Georges Didi-Huberman.
Experimental filmmaker, Jean-Michel Bouhours (born 1956) is the author of some thirty films since 1975. Former chief curator, in charge of the Cinema Department at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou (1992-2003), chief curator in the Modern Art Department (2008-2013) then head of the Modern Art Department (2013-2016); director of the Nouveau Musée national de Monaco between 2003 and 2008. In the field of experimental cinema, author of the books: L'Âge d'or : Correspondance Luis Buñuel-Charles de Noailles (with Nathalie Schoeller), Cahiers du MNAM, Centre Pompidou, 1993; Man Ray, directeur du mauvais movies (with Patrick de Haas), Centre Pompidou, 1996; Michel Nedjar : Tout est poupée. Conversations avec Jean-Michel Bouhours, Buchet-Chastel, 2021; José Antonio Sistiaga : De Rerum Natura, Kutxa Fundaxioa, 2022.
