The history of Swedish experimental film is a story of small broken histories. Sometimes it has resulted in significant works, such as Viking Eggeling's seminal Symphonie diagonale, or in significant experimental filmmakers, such as Gunvor Nelson. But, that is rather the exception than the rule. However, what unites Eggling, Nelson and the films that will be presented in this program is the international context as a prerequisite for the work and the individual films.

Part of their new strand of screenings at Close-Up, Filmarmalade presents a screening of moving image work by artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv. Pil and Galia Kollectiv's films are grounded in an interest in the relationship between art and politics. Following speculative scenarios to their logical conclusion, they re-imagine the consumer riot as a future re-enactment, Marx's Capital as an asparagus ballet, archaeological research at Stonehenge as a forgotten ritual and an economic endgame as a dialogue between computers.

Their new work, The Plague and Its Segmentations, presented here as the world premiere screening continues their investigation of fractured temporalities and science fiction narrative as a means of interrogating the present.

During this presentation we show the legendary Outer and Inner Space by Andy Warhol in its original form, this means with two 16mm projectors and two screens. This epic work contains all the Warholian artistic elements: fame, the portrait, repetion, the reproduction of images... intertwined with Warhol's film work, which turns this film into a selfconscious performance, a homemade Warhol superstar that thus provides commentary on the star system itself. Edie Sedgwick sits next to a monitor that plays a video of her head, while she talks to herself.