Peter Gidal Movies

"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...

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

A film by Peter Gidal

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...

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

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...

"first film in 5 years, tempted to say different yet the same, but not." peter gidal/london/2014

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

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

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

Sound: unrecognition unidentified, in time, you hear? Image: recognition identified, out of time in time; not not knowing the unknown but not knowing...

Assumption is a virtuosic personal tribute, a glimpse at history and a celebration of independent film culture. Gidal's short film was assembled...

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...

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