Poster of Action at a Distance

Action at a Distance

Plot: In Gidal's films, the first level of resistance, that of the filmmaker to the lure of the object, is chiefly inscribed through the action of the camera in it's 'looking at' the space - variously through; motion, distance, focal length's effect on perspective, zoom or focus. The second level, the attempt to distanciate the spectator from the identification with the enunciator, is chiefly inscribed through devices like; repetition, graining out or darkening out of the image in printing, or disruptions in the flow of images and motion
Release Date: Tuesday, January 1 1980
44 years ago
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Portrait of Peter GidalPeter Gidal
Peter Gidal was
33 in Action at a Distance
as 'Director'
Sat, Dec 21 1946