Peter Gidal Movies
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1969
Heads
Heads01969HD
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
- 1968
Hall
Hall11968HD
Demystified reaction by the viewer to a demystified situation; a cut in space and an interruption of duration, through (obvious) jumpcut editing...
- 1969
Clouds
Clouds01969HD
Clouds 1969 by the British filmmaker Peter Gidal is a film comprised of ten minutes of looped footage of the sky, shot with a handheld camera using a...
- 1968
Key
Key5.51968HD
A slow zoom out and defocus of 'An enclosed and progressive disembowelment of durational progression.'
- 2013
Coda II
Coda II02013HD
Gidal describes the film’s ‘so-called imagery’ as ‘a complex of barely visible cuts in space and time, the opposite of...
- 2002
Volcano
Volcano02002HD
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...
- 2013
Coda I
Coda I02013HD
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971,...
- 1971
Focus
Focus01971HD
Early short by Peter Gidal.
- 1968
Loop
Loop31968HD
Loop ended up being a film that also 'ended' Upside Down Feature (1967-72) and was a negative upside down portrait as well....in negative, the person...
- 1988
Guilt
Guilt11988HD
Objects in the world given luminousness, light, are here less apprehensible to knowledge than that which has less light.
- 2013
Coda I + Coda II
Coda I + Coda II02013HD
Peter Gidal’s starting point for his 16mm film was a soundtrack that consists of three lines from a 1,000 word story written by Gidal in 1971,...
- 1978
Epilogue
Epilogue01978HD
A film by Peter Gidal
- 1980
Action at a Distance
Action at a Distance01980HD
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...
- 2009
Performance of Sorts with Brecht
Performance of Sorts with Brecht02009HD
“Theatre theory for film, or not: Brecht (an interrogation/performance: a ghost trio for two).” (Gidal). Taking the form of a multi-part...
- 1997
No Night No Day
No Night No Day01997HD
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...
- 1997
Assumption
Assumption91997HD
Assumption is a virtuosic personal tribute, a glimpse at history and a celebration of independent film culture. Gidal's short film was assembled...
- 1977
Kopenhagen/1930
Kopenhagen/193001977HD
Kopenhagen/1930 presents a different attitude to the seductions of content, to the signifying processes that are repressed in the rigorous procedures...
- 1971
Bedroom
Bedroom01971HD
The most inclusive so far of my film preoccupations; zooming panning focussing to constantly redefine reality and the process of...
- 1971
8mm Film Notes on 16mm
8mm Film Notes on 16mm11971HD
Structuralist film collage consisting of 8mm film "notes" printed directly on 16mm stock. The images include people and landscapes and the technical...