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Peter Gidal: The Author as Producer of Nothing
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A reprint of Gidal’s essay ‘The Author As Producer Of Nothing’ from 1978, with a new introduction by Gidal and epilogue by Sezgin Boynik.
"The process of the film's making deals with devices that result in demystification or attempted demystification of the film process. But by 'deals with' I do not mean 'represents'. In other words, such films do not document various film procedures, which would place them in the same category as films which transparently document a narrative, a set of actions, etc. Documentation, through usage of the film medium as transparent, invisible, is exactly the same when the object being documented is some 'real event', some film procedure', some 'story', etc. An avant-garde film defined by its development towards increased materialism and materialist function does not represent, or document, anything. The film produces certain relations between segments, between what the camera is aimed at and the way that 'image' is presented. The dialectic of the film is established in that space of tension between materialist flatness, grain, light, movement, and the supposed reality that is represented. Consequently a continual attempt to destroy the illusion is necessary."
Publisher: Rab-Rab Press, Helsinki, 2021
Author: Peter Gidal, afterword by Sezgin Boynik
Editor: Sezgin Boynik and Diego Bruno
Design: Ott Kagovere
Format: Paperback
Size: 12 x 20 cm, 66 pages
ISBN: 9789526938936
"The process of the film's making deals with devices that result in demystification or attempted demystification of the film process. But by 'deals with' I do not mean 'represents'. In other words, such films do not document various film procedures, which would place them in the same category as films which transparently document a narrative, a set of actions, etc. Documentation, through usage of the film medium as transparent, invisible, is exactly the same when the object being documented is some 'real event', some film procedure', some 'story', etc. An avant-garde film defined by its development towards increased materialism and materialist function does not represent, or document, anything. The film produces certain relations between segments, between what the camera is aimed at and the way that 'image' is presented. The dialectic of the film is established in that space of tension between materialist flatness, grain, light, movement, and the supposed reality that is represented. Consequently a continual attempt to destroy the illusion is necessary."
Title: The Author as Producer of Nothing
Publisher: Rab-Rab Press, Helsinki, 2021
Author: Peter Gidal, afterword by Sezgin Boynik
Editor: Sezgin Boynik and Diego Bruno
Design: Ott Kagovere
Format: Paperback
Size: 12 x 20 cm, 66 pages
ISBN: 9789526938936
