{"id":5562,"date":"2016-05-25T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2020-01-17T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T23:56:12","slug":"peter-gidal-pompidou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2016\/05\/25\/peter-gidal-pompidou\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gidal: Flare Out – Paris Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PETER GIDAL: FLARE OUT \u2014 SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH<\/strong>
\n Wednesday 25 May 2016, at 7pm<\/strong>
\n Paris Centre Pompidou
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For five decades, Peter Gidal has sought to problematise the film-viewing process by creating works that resist recognition and identification. His practice posits film as a durational experience and negates analysis on psychological grounds. This programme, featuring the seminal film Clouds<\/em> (1969) and later works Flare Out<\/em> (1992), Volcano<\/em> (2002) and not far at all<\/em> (2013), surveys his radical and unique approach.<\/p>\n

Peter Gidal, Clouds, 1969, 10 min<\/strong>
\n Peter Gidal, Flare Out, 1992, 20 min<\/strong>
\n Peter Gidal, Volcano, 2002, 30 min<\/strong>
\n Peter Gidal, not far at all, 2013, 15 min<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gidal has been based in the UK since the late 1960s, and was a central figure during the formative years of the London Film-Makers\u2019 Co-operative. He is a noted writer and polemicist, whose \u201cTheory and Definition of Structural\/Materialist Film\u201d is a key text of avant-garde cinema. The screening celebrates the publication of Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966\u20132016<\/a>, a collection of Gidal\u2019s essays on film, art and aesthetics, and will be introduced by the filmmaker and editor\/publisher Mark Webber.<\/p>\n

\u201cMental activation toward material analysis is the process that is relevant, whether or not actual structure is \u2018revealed\u2019.\u201d \u2014Peter Gidal, 1969<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a>

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PETER GIDAL: FLARE OUT \u2014 SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH
\n<\/strong>Wednesday 25 May 2016, at 7pm
\nParis Centre Pompidou<\/p>\n

CLOUDS
\nPeter Gidal, 1969, 16mm, b\/w, sound, 10 min<\/strong>
\nThe anti-illusionist project engaged by Clouds<\/em> is that of dialectical materialism. There is virtually nothing on screen, in the sense of in screen. Obsessive repetition as materialist practice not psychoanalytical indulgence. (PG)<\/p>\n

FLARE OUT
\nPeter Gidal, 1992, 16mm, colour, sound, 20 min<\/strong>
\nSound: unrecognition unidentified, in time, you hear? Image: recognition identified, out of time in time; not not knowing the unknown but not knowing the known, no trace of \u2018no trace of any thing\u2019. e.g. grain: is grain silver, black & white, or colour? Is silver black & white or colour? You see? (PG)<\/p>\n

VOLCANO
\nPeter Gidal, 2002, 16mm, b\/w & colour, silent, 30 min<\/strong>
\nThe film attempts to deal with those questions of representation that persist as problematic, for me, for the basic questions of aesthetics, what it is to view, how to view the unknown, as to view the known is not possibly a viewing. The question of recognition, the impossibility of recognition or, better said, the impossibility of a viewer viewing at all if it is predicated upon recognition \u2026 At that moment, you the viewer I the viewer am no longer part of a process, a material however metaphysical or not process of making meaning through the conflicts of perception of something \u2026 In Volcano<\/em> light\u2019s afterimage, the shot of light after image, becomes as obliterative as dark\u2019s \u2026 Thereby the temporal break caused by transparent leader, and by black leader, becomes differently spatial and temporal, as to the \u201csomething missing\u201d\u2026 (PG)<\/p>\n

not far at all
\nPeter Gidal, 2013, 16mm, colour, sound, 15 minutes<\/strong>
\nFirst film in 5 years, tempted to say different yet the same, but not. not far at all<\/em>\u2019s soundtrack, just for the record, is concrete\/abstract without language. (PG)<\/p>\n

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