Peter Gidal Movies

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

Demystified reaction by the viewer to a demystified situation; a cut in space and an interruption of duration, through (obvious) jumpcut editing...

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

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...

Objects in the world given luminousness, light, are here less apprehensible to knowledge than that which has less light.

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

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...

A film by Peter Gidal

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...

Early short by Peter Gidal.

A slow zoom out and defocus of 'An enclosed and progressive disembowelment of durational progression.'