Hilarisdoppio (1973) Paolo Gioli

Hilarisdoppio Doublehilaris Selfshot: a film shot without a camera operator. Sole witness: the movie camera. Fixed, directed at a single expanse, obedient to the orders of wires that I manipulate: characters splitting in two through the asymmetrical filtration of the comings and goings of selfirony. Composed of various extracts of historical films, such as the Eisensteinian battleship, intercut with stairways of various sorts; the unceasing use of negatives persecuted by positives and vice versa; a cinematictheatrical dialogue between philosophical doubling and filmic doubling.