Peter Gidal (born 1946) is a British avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist.
[2] Gidal moved to London in July 1968 to study at the Royal College of Art.
[2][3] Gidal was concerned by American imperialism during the Vietnam War, and his filmmaking explicitly focused questions of representation that were both aesthetic and political.
[5] Critic Bob Cowan panned Gidal's films, describing them as "typically representative of the pathetic vacuousness of certain works included in the minimal-structural camp.
[7] He published the 1976 Structural Film Anthology, one of the earliest books to cover British avant-garde cinema.