Peter Gidal Movies

  • 1971
    8mm Film Notes on 16mm

    8mm Film Notes on 16mm

    8mm Film Notes on 16mm

    11971HD

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

    8mm Film Notes on 16mm
  • 1978
    Fourth Wall

    Fourth Wall

    Fourth Wall

    01978HD

    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
  • 1970
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01970HD

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

    Untitled
  • 1980
    Action at a Distance

    Action at a Distance

    Action at a Distance

    01980HD

    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
  • 1974
    Film Print

    Film Print

    Film Print

    01974HD

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

    Film Print
  • 1997
    No Night No Day

    No Night No Day

    No Night No Day

    01997HD

    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
  • 1975
    Condition of Illusion

    Condition of Illusion

    Condition of Illusion

    51975HD

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

    Condition of Illusion
  • 1977
    Silent Partner

    Silent Partner

    Silent Partner

    11977HD

    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
  • 1972
    Upside Down Feature

    Upside Down Feature

    Upside Down Feature

    01972HD

    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...

    Upside Down Feature
  • 1973
    Room Film 1973

    Room Film 1973

    Room Film 1973

    4.31973HD

    "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...

    Room Film 1973
  • 1970
    Portrait Subject Object

    Portrait Subject Object

    Portrait Subject Object

    01970HD

    Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

    Portrait Subject Object
  • 2009
    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

    Performance of Sorts with Brecht

    02009HD

    “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

    01977HD

    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

    01974HD

    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