Afterimages 2: Peter Gidal Vol. 1 ( Clouds / Key / Room Film 1973 )

Afterimages 2: Peter Gidal Vol. 1 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Clouds / Key / Room Film 1973
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
75

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968-1973 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Gidal

Synopsis:

Peter Gidal's films have been an influence on several generations of artists. An important theorist and writer as well as a filmmaker since the late 1960s, Gidal was a pioneer of 'structural-materialist' film and his work has been shown around the world, including retrospectives at the ICA in London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. This DVD includes three seminal early films. KEY: A slow zoom out and defocus of 'An enclosed and progressive disembowelment of durational progression. CLOUDS: Frantic frame edge defining nothingness. The anti-illusionist 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 psychoanalytical indulgence. Gidal's film Clouds establishes an awareness of position, a confrontation, and it takes you back to you from the far reaches of eternal space the confrontation as with you. ROOM FILM 1973: The anti-illusionist project & the materialist dialectic are no more mechanistic goals than for example Marxist poltical theory and practice. 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 anything, it is not a representation of anything, not even of consciousness." - PG

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