Peter Gidal Movies

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Gidal describes the film’s ‘so-called imagery’ as ‘a complex of barely visible cuts in space and time, the opposite of...

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,...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 film by Peter Gidal

"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...

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

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

Directed by Peter Gidal (1967)

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...