Peter Gidal Movies

The most inclusive so far of my film preoccupations; zooming panning focussing to constantly redefine reality and the process of...

Close Up is a provocative and potentially dangerous pulling together of two opposing aspects of film form - namely, a 'documentartist' soundtrack...

A Peter Gidal short film

A film by Peter Gidal

In Gidal's films, the first level of resistance, that of the filmmaker to the lure of the object, is chiefly inscribed through the action of the...

Structuralist film collage consisting of 8mm film "notes" printed directly on 16mm stock. The images include people and landscapes and the technical...

The film deals with levels of reproduction. The repetitious camera movements over successive photographs are intended to function as distancing...

Assumption is a virtuosic personal tribute, a glimpse at history and a celebration of independent film culture. Gidal's short film was assembled...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

16mm, 8'20"

Kopenhagen/1930 presents a different attitude to the seductions of content, to the signifying processes that are repressed in the rigorous procedures...

“Theatre theory for film, or not: Brecht (an interrogation/performance: a ghost trio for two).” (Gidal). Taking the form of a multi-part...

The glass window being installed - labour - being the subject ostensibly of the film...glaziers and glass having a history within representation from...

What darkness the film will have in No Night No Daywill not be connected to nature's night, equally light will be unconnected to 'day' as a lived...

Sound: unrecognition unidentified, in time, you hear? Image: recognition identified, out of time in time; not not knowing the unknown but not knowing...