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Peter Gidal screenings & exhibitions

Selected Film Shows

1967 - 1980

  • Drury Lane Arts Lab, London 1968
  • London Filmmakers' Co-operative annually from 1969
  • National Film Theatre, London, bi-annually from 1970
  • Edinburgh Film Festival annually 1969-1978
  • Mannheim Film Festival 1971
  • Belgian TV transmission of Hall, 1971
  • Tate Gallery, London 1974,
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1972, 1974
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1973
  • Prix de la Recherche for Room Film 1973,
  • Toulon Film Festival 1974
  • Knokke 5th Experimental Film Festival, 1974
  • Royal Belgian Film Archive and Cinemateque, 1972, 1975, 1980
  • Arsenal, Berlin 1972, 1975, 1980, 1984
  • Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1975
  • Arte Inglesi Oggi 1960-1976,
  • Milan Perspectives on British Avant-Garde Film (exhibit & films), Hayward Gallery, 1976
  • Dokumenta 6, Kassel (Film Print ), 1976
  • Unesco Symposium, Paris, 1977
  • Film als Film: 1910 bis Heute, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen;
  • Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart,1977-1979
  • Kings College and Jesus College, Cambridge; Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown Universities & UCLA, 1980

1981-1982

  • Arnolfini, Bristol
  • Lodz, Poland
  • Zagreb and Belgrade
  • Centre Beaubourg, Paris
  • San Francisco Art Institute
  • Anthology Film Archives, NY
  • Christian Metz Seminar at Haute Etudes, Paris
  • Scratch Cinema / Light Cone, Paris
  • Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
  • Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland: Alles und Noch Viel Mehr Paris
  • Bienale (British Section)
  • Epilogue on Austrian Television.

1986-1988

  • Harvard University Film Archive 
  • British Experimental Film Week, Budapest
  • First International Avant-Garde Film Festival, Riga, Latvia
  • Screenings in Madrid & Barcelona

1992-1994

  • 'The Elusive Sign' touring Programme (with Denials)
  • 'The Austere Gaze' touring Programme (Guilt)
  • '35 years of Millenium Film Workshop', Museum of Modern Art, NY (Condition of Illusion)
  • 330 ans de creations cinematographique en perspective, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • Salzburg International Avant-Garde Film and Music Festival
  • Other screenings include: Vienna Experimental Film Conference; London Film Festival; Canyon Cinema, San Francisco; Royal Belgium Archive.

1996 - 2000

  • Retrospective (eight films and four essay booklet) Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • '100 years of Cinema' exhibition, drawings and photographs from Close Up, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Southampton City Art Gallery, ICA, Architectural Association
  • Epilogue, Clouds, Denials, No Night No Day, introduction and pamphlet by Cerith Wyn-Evans, Tate Gallery
  • Selected Retrospective, Lux Cinema, London
  • Other screenings include: Cinemateque Francaise; Royal Belgian Film Archive and Cinemateque.

2000-present

  • Live in Your Head: English Experimental and Conceptual Art 1965-1975, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  • CAA, Katakyushu, Japan: (solo, 6 films)
  • Bridge the Gap (Flare Out) Mediacity 2000, Seoul, Korea (1 minute video version of Assumption, screened on electronic billboard, repeated in Rotterdam and Rouen
  • Mutations, Arc en Reve, in conjunction with book 'Mutations' (Koolhaas et al, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Rouen, Paris, (video distribution of programme includes Assumption)
  • 'Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative and British Avant-Garde film 1966-76', Tate Modern (2002) touring to twenty countries 2002-2005
  • Volcano, Key, Hall, Focus, Clouds, Royal College of Art, Light Readings Program, Feb. 2003
  • 'On General Release' touring exhibition, Norwich Art Gallery, 2003 Volcano, LUX Open 2003
  • Shows in Barcelona, Paris, Anthology Film Archives, N.Y, Slade/UCL, London

Films in Public Collections and Archives

  • Belgian Film Archive and Cinemateque (5)
  • National Film Archive, London (9)
  • National Portrait Gallery, London (1)
  • National Library of Australia (4)
  • New York Public Library,
  • Donnel Film Archive (1)
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2)
  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra (2)
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (3)
  • Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1)
  • Avant Garde Film Archive, Avignon (2)
  • University of Maryland Avant-Garde Film Archive(1)

Film Grants

  • Arts Council of Great Britain 1974, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1993
  • British Film Institute 1977
  • National Endowment for the Arts (USA), 1978
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