Peter Gidal Movies

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

Early short by Peter Gidal.

Gidal describes the film’s ‘so-called imagery’ as ‘a complex of barely visible cuts in space and time, the opposite of...

Loop ended up being a film that also 'ended' Upside Down Feature (1967-72) and was a negative upside down portrait as well....in negative, the person...

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

The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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...

16mm, 8'20"

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

"This film is a consequent continuation and contraction of my film work, research which began with Room (1967). The film is not a translation of...

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

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

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...

Peter Gidal's 'Upside Down Feature' is one of the most important films to have been made in this country. It makes a complex and original foray into...