When the Eye Quakes
1989, Italian. Directed by Paolo Gioli.
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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- 0h 11m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Italian
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- Released
- 1 January 1989
- Original title
- Quando l'occhio trema
- Country
- Italy
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When the Eye Quakes isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1989. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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If you liked When the Eye Quakes, try Eyes of Laura Mars, The Glass Key, Raging Grace.
Who directed When the Eye Quakes?
When the Eye Quakes (1989) was directed by Paolo Gioli.