Peter Gidal

Biography

Born in 1946. Gidal studied theatre, psychology and literature at Brandeis University, Massachussets, 1964-68, and the University of Munich from 1966-7. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1968-71 where he went on to teach Advanced Film Studies until 1984. He was an active member of the London Film-makers' Co-operative since 1969, and Cinema Programmer there from 1971-4. Co-founder of the Independent Film-makers' Association, 1975, he served as a member of the British Film Institute Production Board, 1978-81. His films have been screened nationally and internationally, including the Tate Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, and yearly since 1969 at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the National Film Theatre. Gidal has had retrospectives of his films at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1983, Centre George Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris, 1996, amongst others. International screenings include several each at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Royal Belgium Film Archive and Cinematheque, Documenta, Arte Inglesi Oggi, X-Screen, etc. He is the recipient of the Prix de la Recherche, Toulon 1974. Gidal is renowned as a writer and theorist, in particular for his highly influential pu…

Directed

1. Condition of Illusion (1975) — Director
2. Key (1968) — Director
3. Room Film 1973 (1973) — Director
4. Hall (1968) — Director
5. Close Up (1983) — Director
6. Assumption (1997) — Director
7. Silent Partner (1977) — Director
8. Loop (1968) — Director
9. 8mm Film Notes on 16mm (1971) — Director
10. Guilt (1988) — Director
11. Coda I (2013) — Director
12. Coda II (2013) — Director
13. Clouds (1969) — Director
14. Untitled (1978) — Director
15. Portrait Subject Object (1967) — Director
16. Not Far At All (2013) — Director
17. Volcano (2002) — Director
18. Coda I + Coda II (2013) — Director
19. Epilogue (1978) — Director
20. Room (Double Take) (1967) — Director
21. Heads (1969) — Director
22. Film Print (1974) — Director
23. Fourth Wall (1978) — Director
24. Bedroom (1971) — Director
25. C/O/N/S/T/R/U/C/T (1974) — Director
26. Kopenhagen/1930 (1977) — Director
27. Action at a Distance (1980) — Director
28. Focus (1971) — Director
29. Upside Down Feature (1972) — Director
30. Flare Out (1992) — Director
31. No Night No Day (1997) — Director
32. Denials (1985) — Director
33. Performance of Sorts with Brecht (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)