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Close-Up: Peter Hutton's Haikus

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 18/08/2017 - 03:58

Close-Up and Rattis Books pay tribute to the visionary artist Peter Hutton, one year on from his passing. Presenting the first substantial screening of Hutton’s works in London in a decade, this two-night programme focuses on a cross-section the filmmaker’s intimate and lush portraits of urban, rural and marine environments.
Dates:
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 - 19:30
Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up: William Raban. Making Films Politically?

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 23/03/2017 - 11:33

"The problem is not to make political films, but to make films politically." – Jean-Luc Godard

Close Up and Carroll/Fletcher are delighted to present a programme of films by William Raban. Artist filmmaker William Raban was a central figure of the London Film-makers' Co-operative. Initially known for his landscape and expanded cinema works of the 1970s, Raban's films from the 1990s onwards look at the island of Britain and its people, in the context of the global economy and the effects of urban change.

Dates:
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 20:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up: Prismatic Music. The Films of Joseph Bernard

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 13/03/2017 - 07:58

Close-Up and Brand New Blinkers are thrilled to present the first UK programme devoted to the films of Joseph Bernard, including a new sound collaboration that Joseph has embarked on with composer Simon Gore, who has scored a soundtrack to Joseph’s White Film.
Dates:
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up: Alternative Film/Video

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 10/03/2017 - 05:10

Greg de Cuir Jr. presents a programme of films selected from the competition segment of Alternative Film/Video 2016 in Belgrade (Serbia). Starting in 1982, this international festival for new film and video expression and one of the oldest manifestations of its kind in Europe, was founded as an antidote to commercial film and video-making and to support unconventional practices while celebrating moving image cultures.
Dates:
Monday, March 13, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up Cinema: Signal Noise

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 07/03/2017 - 15:41

Karel Doing presents a programme of films that explore the borders of the "readable image", fluctuating between havoc and absence. Patterns emerge out of disorder, and meaning is found in vacuum. The cinema screen provides a universe on its own, letting the viewer travel through space and time while visiting the outer borders of cognition.
Dates:
Friday, March 10, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up: OJOBOCA - Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/03/2017 - 08:56

Close-Up and Unconscious Archives are delighted to present a selection of recent 16mm films by Berlin based artist-fillmmakers Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy - including their dual-projector "Traumatoscope" performance New Museum of Mankind.
Dates:
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Concrete Futures

By Anonymous on Tue, 28/02/2017 - 18:44

Presented by Sheffield Fringe Concrete Futures brings together films that deal with fiction and imagination, inviting encounters with speculative futures, which are nonetheless grafted onto the present, ‘documentary’ moment that haunts them. Moreover, through the use of images as documents and as drivers of the imagination, Serbian, Angolan and Spanish cityscapes are connected in a type of speculative haunting.

Dates:
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Sarah Pucill: Magic Mirror / Confessions to the Mirror

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 16/02/2017 - 16:32

We're pleased to present a double bill of Sarah Pucill's two feature-length experiments in bringing cinematic life to the photographic and written archive of the French Surrealist Claude Cahun. Pucill will be in conversation with Laura Guy following each screening.

February 19, 18:30h
- Confessions to the Mirror (Sarah Pucill, 2016, 68 min, Colour, DCP)
Q&A with Sarah Pucill and Laura Guy
Dates:
Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up Cinema: George Kuchar-Weather Diaries + Greetings from Boulder

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 14/02/2017 - 15:09

We're thrilled to present a rare screening of the visual diaries of the renowned American independent filmmaker George Kuchar, bringing together his series of films known as the Weather Diaries for the first time in the UK. Greetings from Boulder, an earlier tape from one of Kuchar’s reflective vacations in Colorado, will also be screened alongside the Diaries. The programme will be introduced via Skype by Professor Scott MacDonald, one of the leading academics in the field of experimental film.
Dates:
Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 14:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema
Close-Up Cinema: Transgression

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 09/12/2016 - 02:02

Karel Doing presents a programme exploring cinematic mischief, with a collection of works that undermine and disrupt contemporary political discourse whilst providing a counterpoint to aestheticism – a tonic for the modern malaise. This selection brings together films from across Europe to reveal surprising links between disparate makers and thinkers – followed by a discussion with the filmmakers about their outspoken and radical positions.
Dates:
Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 20:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema

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