Peter Gidal Movies

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...

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

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

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

A Peter Gidal short film

"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...

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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

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

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

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

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...

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