Archive: Park Nights: Pavilion Film Night
Programmed by Peter Gidal
Friday 26 September
Peter Gidal, London-based experimental filmmaker and writer on aesthetics, programmed two films to mark the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Richter – 4900 Colours: Version II.
Nuit et Brouillard (Night And Fog)
France, 1955, 30min, 16mm
Directed by Alain Resnais
A film where the effect is not based on representations but on empty spaces, in combination with the soundtrack by Paul Celan.
Die Bleierne Zeit
(The German Sisters)
Germany, 1981, 106min, 16mm
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
The story of two German sisters, one a daddy’s girl, the other the tough independent one; the former joins the Baader-Meinhof group, the latter becomes a feminist.
