Peter Gidal Movies

A Peter Gidal short film

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Early short by Peter Gidal.

Volcano, half hour, silent, shot on 16mm on a volcano in Hawaii, the film attempts to deal with those questions of representation that persist as...

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...

A film by Peter Gidal

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