Peter Gidal - 5 Films (1967-1997)

Peter Gidal - 5 Films (1967-1997) at UbuWeb Film & Video. "...Peter Gidal is both the chief theorist of the 1970s film avant-garde, and its most austere image-maker. He also is the foremost exponent of British structural cinema. Gidal's films invite audiences to consider various aspects of the mediation between the real and the reel. In his most famous work, Room Film 1973, for example, the artist's camera restlessly investigates a room in minute detail. Clouds, which depicts just sky and an occasional plane, keeps the viewer guessing as to what if anything is moving? Gidal wrote: 'The anti-illusionistic project engaged by Clouds is that of dialectic materialism. There is virtually nothing ON screen, in the sense of IN screen. Obsessive repetition as materialist practice, not psychoanalytic indulgence.' Also included here is Assumption (1997), Epilogue (1978) and the 76-minute Upside Down Feature (1967-1972)."