Room Film 1973

I liked your Room Film very much. It is very good…I felt as if my father had made it, as if it was made by a blind man. I liked the tentativeness…sometimes the repeating shots would be clear, other times one couldnt tell if it was continuous. One had to work at it. I think it is a really beautiful film. I liked the splices! I feel that searching tentative quality a lot, that quality of trying to see. Michael Snow (Sept 1973).

I was particularly impressed with Gidals film, which from what Ive seen may be his best to date. Very subtly and very plastically it deals with light. The film is uncompromisingly rigid in its minimality of action. A very beautifully realised piece of work…it is definitely contemporary in feeling and substance. It is one of the best films to come out of the London School.-Jonas Mekas , Village Voice 1973.
…there is no describable content, but one watches with fascination the representation of the objective world through the agency of light and its absence. An important enlargement of the historical conception of modernism, Gidal also poses the problem of the dialectic of representation, through representation (Rembrandt, Giacometti , etc). – Malcolm Le Grice , Studio International, 1973.