Peter Gidal Movies

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...

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...

Hopefully learning the lessons of Close Up, the attempt was to construct the discrete form the (seemingly) continuous... so that, mainly...

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

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

A film by Peter Gidal

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

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...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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

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

"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...

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

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...