Peter Gidal: Close Up
39 Pilgrim St
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1
UK
Peter Gidal: Close Up at AV Festival, Newcastle
Peter Gidal, Close Up, 1983, 70 min
Introduced by Mark Webber
This rare screening of Peter Gidalās āfeature lengthā film Close Up anticipates the publication of Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966ā2016, a collection of essays by one of filmās great polemicists. Gidal was a central figure during the formative years of the London Film-Makersā Co-operative, whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated throughout 2016, and made some its most radical works. His cinema is anti-narrative, against representation and fiercely materialist. In Close Up, Gidalās political, ultra-leftist practice is augmented by the disembodied voices of Nicaraguan revolutionaries heard on the soundtrack.
Presented by the AV Festival 2016 as part of Resistance: British Documentary Film, more information about all the films in the series here.