Peter Gidal Movies

  • 1997
    No Night No Day

    No Night No Day

    No Night No Day

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    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...

    No Night No Day
  • 2013
    Not Far At All

    Not Far At All

    Not Far At All

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    A Peter Gidal short film

    Not Far At All
  • 1980
    Action at a Distance

    Action at a Distance

    Action at a Distance

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    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...

    Action at a Distance
  • 1968
    Loop

    Loop

    Loop

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    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...

    Loop
  • 1967
    Room (Double Take)

    Room (Double Take)

    Room (Double Take)

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    A hand-held camera zooms in and out as it films the objects in a room. The same sequence is presented twice. "In Room, [Gidal] makes deliberate use...

    Room (Double Take)
  • 1973
    Room Film 1973

    Room Film 1973

    Room Film 1973

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    "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...

    Room Film 1973
  • 1978
    Fourth Wall

    Fourth Wall

    Fourth Wall

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    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...

    Fourth Wall
  • 1977
    Silent Partner

    Silent Partner

    Silent Partner

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

    Silent Partner
  • 1970
    Portrait Subject Object

    Portrait Subject Object

    Portrait Subject Object

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    Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

    Portrait Subject Object
  • 1974
    Film Print

    Film Print

    Film Print

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

    Film Print
  • 1975
    Condition of Illusion

    Condition of Illusion

    Condition of Illusion

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

    Condition of Illusion
  • 2009
    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

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

    Performance of Sorts with Brecht
  • 1977
    Kopenhagen/1930

    Kopenhagen/1930

    Kopenhagen/1930

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

    Kopenhagen/1930
  • 1974
    C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T

    C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T

    C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T

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

    C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T