Peter Gidal
Performance of Sorts with Brecht / Volcano / Denials
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Original format 16mm, video
Year 1985-2009
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Peter Gidal
Running time 97 min
Films
PERFORMANCE OF SORTS WITH BRECHT (2009) 52'
VOLCANO (2002) 30'
DENIALS (1985) 20'
Description
Peter Gidal is a renowned filmmaker, writer, and theorist whose films have been presented internationally over the past forty years. This limited-edition DVD features a rare performance by Gidal, in which he interrogates his own practice as an experimental filmmaker and theorist through Brecht's theatrical theory. It also includes two of his major late film works along with a new text produced by Gidal to accompany the performance.
Born in 1946, Peter Gidal studied theater, psychology, and literature at Brandeis University (Massachusetts) and the University of Munich. He also studied at the Royal College of Art between 1968 and 1971, where he later taught advanced film studies. An active member of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative, he also co-founded the Independent Film-makers' Association. His films have been screened nationally and internationally, notably at the Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Film Theatre, and the Edinburgh Film Festival. Retrospectives of his work have been organized at, among other venues, the ICA in London (1983) and the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris (1996).