Peter Gidal Filmes

A film by Peter Gidal

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...

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

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

Early short by Peter Gidal.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

"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...

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