Peter Gidal Movies

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

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

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...

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...

Close Up is a provocative and potentially dangerous pulling together of two opposing aspects of film form - namely, a 'documentartist' soundtrack...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

A film by Peter Gidal