Cinematography: Peter Gidal
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Peter Gidal. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Coda I + Coda II (S)
2013 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot 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, read by William Burroughs....
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C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T (S)
1974 · Documentary · 14 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot The glass window being installed – labour – being the subject ostensibly of the film…glaziers and glass having a history within representation from the german novella through Beckett’s molloy through...
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Hall (S)
1968 · Documentary · 11 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot Demystified reaction by the viewer to a demystified situation; a cut in space and an interruption of duration, through (obvious) jumpcut editing within a strictly defined space. Manipulation of response...
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Close Up
1983 · Documentary · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot Close Up is a provocative and potentially dangerous pulling together of two opposing aspects of film form – namely, a ‘documentartist’ soundtrack comprising interview material with Nicaraguan revolutionaries on the...
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Denials
1985 · Documentary · 28 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot Hopefully learning the lessons of Close Up, the attempt was to construct the discrete form the (seemingly) continuous... so that, mainly retrospectively (yet during viewing) sequences present themselves as fragment-conglomorates....
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Condition of Illusion
1975 · Documentary · 32 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot An unstable image that finally stabilizes to display quotes from Althusser and Beckett.
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Epilogue (S)
1968 · Documentary · 8 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot A film by Peter Gidal
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8mm Film Notes on 16mm (S)
1971 · Documentary · 19 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot Structuralist film collage consisting of 8mm film “notes” printed directly on 16mm stock. The images include people and landscapes and the technical difference between the two film formats are emphasised...
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Room: Double Take (S)
1967 · Documentary · 11 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot 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 of the complete...
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Clouds (S)
1969 · Documentary · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Gidal
Plot Obstinate patterns and fogs.
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