Peter Gidal Movies

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

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...

Made from the same footage as Epilogue but in a different order: 1. pan, 2. dissolve-crossfade, 3.freeze.... as opposed topan, freeze,...

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...

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

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...

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

In effect, it turns the spectator loose in a problematic textual system which includes both narrative and non-narrative clues; the puzzle cannot be...

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...

"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...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

“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...

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