Walden presents: Peter Gidal

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When:
December 8, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
2018-12-08T18:00:00+00:00
2018-12-08T20:00:00+00:00
Where:
Filmhuset Bio Mauritz
BorgvÀgen 1
115 53 Stockholm
Sweden
Cost:
80 Kr
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Gidal

Walden presents: Peter Gidal

Peter Gidal, Portrait Subject Object, 1967, 10 min
Peter Gidal, Still Andy, 1968, 4 min
Peter Gidal, Untitled, 1978, 9 min
Peter Gidal, Epilogue, 1978, 9 min
Peter Gidal, Kopenhagen 1930, 1977, 40 min
Peter Gidal, not far at all, 2013, 15 min

Gidal-Still-Andy

“The question of making things difficult for the spectator in my films is absolutely crucial and historically so, because that is where the break always comes. In the cinema, more than any other art form, the question of difficulty is always raised. With other things there are conventions: for example, it’s okay to spend until two o’clock in the morning checking a difficult footnote in a book; difficult paintings are okay because you can walk past them in seconds. But film has an authoritarian structure built into its mechanism in terms of time, being held there for a period of time, which is why most film goes out of its way to avoid precisely that as an issue, whereas my work goes out of its way to raise it as one.”

Peter Gidal föddes 1946 och vĂ€xte upp i Schweiz. Efter att ha studerat psykologi och tysk litteratur vid Brandeis University och universitetet i MĂŒnchen började han pĂ„ Royal College of Art i London. Det var ocksĂ„ hĂ€r han pĂ„ allvar började med film. PĂ„ 1960-talet visades hans filmer pĂ„ New Arts Lab i Drury Lane och London Film Makers’ Co-op, som han ocksĂ„ hjĂ€lpte till att etablera. Peter Gidals filmer tillhör en formalistisk och materiellt utforskande tradition inom experimentfilmen, dĂ€r aspekter som den fotokemiska filmens kornighet, och materialets varaktighet, tempo och redigeringsstrukturer intar en central roll. Han har Ă€ven varit flitig som polemisk filmteoretiker med böcker som Structural Film Anthology (1974), Materialist Film (1989) och en bok om Samuel Beckett (1986). Flertalet av hans mest centrala texter samlades i volymen Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016, som gavs ut av The Visible Press 2016.

Alla filmer visas pÄ 16 mm. Tack till Lux och Visible Press.

Copies of Peter Gidal’s book “Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016” will be available at the screening.