Peter Gidal Movies
- 1971
8mm Film Notes on 16mm
8mm Film Notes on 16mm11971HD
Structuralist film collage consisting of 8mm film "notes" printed directly on 16mm stock. The images include people and landscapes and the technical...
- 1978
Fourth Wall
Fourth Wall01978HD
The film attempts to construct a space (as all films do), to construct a time (as all films do), to construct a process (as all films do) of and for...
- 1970
Untitled
Untitled01970HD
Made from the same footage as Epilogue but in a different order: 1. pan, 2. dissolve-crossfade, 3.freeze.... as opposed topan, freeze,...
- 1980
Action at a Distance
Action at a Distance01980HD
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...
- 1974
Film Print
Film Print01974HD
The film deals with levels of reproduction. The repetitious camera movements over successive photographs are intended to function as distancing...
- 1997
No Night No Day
No Night No Day01997HD
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...
- 1975
Condition of Illusion
Condition of Illusion51975HD
The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern...
- 1977
Silent Partner
Silent Partner11977HD
In effect, it turns the spectator loose in a problematic textual system which includes both narrative and non-narrative clues; the puzzle cannot be...
- 1972
Upside Down Feature
Upside Down Feature01972HD
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...
- 1973
Room Film 1973
Room Film 19734.31973HD
"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...
- 1970
Portrait Subject Object
Portrait Subject Object01970HD
Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)
- 2009
Performance of Sorts with Brecht
Performance of Sorts with Brecht02009HD
“Theatre theory for film, or not: Brecht (an interrogation/performance: a ghost trio for two).” (Gidal). Taking the form of a multi-part...
- 1977
Kopenhagen/1930
Kopenhagen/193001977HD
Kopenhagen/1930 presents a different attitude to the seductions of content, to the signifying processes that are repressed in the rigorous procedures...
- 1974
C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T
C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T01974HD
The glass window being installed - labour - being the subject ostensibly of the film...glaziers and glass having a history within representation from...