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Article: Free films made freely: Paolo Gioli and experimental filmmaking in Italy.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
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- December 22, 2009
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As a premise for my way of making films and working with film, the most important thing is the movie-camera understood almost as a laboratory (for the shooting and printing of films) ... I express my love for the cinema through the movie-camera; in terms of time requirements and production costs, I'm beginning to invent them for myself. Free films made freely.
--Paolo Gioli
Given the large amount of attention that the Italian film industry routinely gets from scholars and critics, it is surprising how little we have come to know about avant-garde and experimental film-making in Italy. We understand a great deal about avant-garde films in France, ...