When the Eye Quakes
It all started with the notorious Buñuelian sliced eyeball, that surprises us every time. The eye of an ox, but still it's the eye of a woman! The anxiety of the incision is transformed into a saccadic, uncontrolled anxiety precisely of the eye and of its pupil. When subjected to the stroboscopic rhythms of single frame animation—as in some archaic pre-animation—one's gaze at it is thrown off, going in search of a little dramatic action here and there in the face, through the quick cinematic nonsense of saucers and sclera. The eye of an ox, which degenerates in Buñuel's incision, is my own quaking ox eye.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Quando l'occhio trema |
| Year | 1989 |
| Director | Paolo Gioli |
| Runtime | 11 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.0/10 (1 votes) |
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The film constructs its visual essay directly from the legacy of surrealism, using Buñuel's iconic incision as a foundational gesture. It explores anxiety not narratively, but through the very physiology of sight, transforming the eye from a passive object into the active, trembling subject of perception.
What lingers after the stroboscopic flicker subsides is a profound disorientation, a sense that one's own gaze has been permanently altered. The experience is less about watching and more about being subjected to a relentless visual pulse. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Paolo Gioli
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In absolute darkness, on a large screen, surrendering to the hypnotic pulse.
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