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Close-Up: In Memoriam: Frans Zwartjes

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 04:04

Frans Zwartjes passed away on November 18, 2017. He was ninety years old.

Best known for his experimental shorts produced in the 1960s and 70s, Zwartjes was goth before there was such a thing (which the culture has since determinedly undermined). He was the first artist to unlock the potential of the selfie (which the culture has since determinedly undermined), and he was the precursor to the Fassbindian approach to "family" filmmaking (which the culture has since determinedly avoided). Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important experimental filmmaker of his generation", and he has been either cited or ripped off whole-sale by a generation of artists and filmmakers since.

Dates:
Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Close-Up - Trouble in the Image: Pat O'Neill

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 21/11/2017 - 16:03

Pat O'Neill presents a programme of films selected from his five decade career to coincide with the UK premiere of his new film Where the Chocolate Mountains at the Tate Modern on 23 November.
Dates:
Saturday, November 25, 2017 - 17:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Edge of Frame: After Nature (Parts One and Two)

By Anonymous on Mon, 20/11/2017 - 16:40

After Nature is a two-part programme of experimental animation focusing on work engaged with ideas of technology and the environment. Part One a selection of films respond to man-made waste, disasters and ecological catastrophe. Part Two explores ideas of landscape and technology, and the merging of the real and the virtual, with works combining CG animation, live action and found footage.
Dates:
Sunday, December 3, 2017 - 18:00
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Edge of Frame: You, Me, Them

By Anonymous on Mon, 20/11/2017 - 16:37

You, Me, Them presents ten films exploring disconnection and the limits of communication. Language and images can often be misleading and inadequate but when recontextualised, distorted or ruptured, we can sometimes glimpse what lurks behind the surface. Mixing rarely screened historical work with recent and brand new films, this diverse selection of experimental animation features a wide range of techniques including drawing, watercolour, CG and optical printing.
Dates:
Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Close-Up: Mika Taanila, A Survey

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 17/10/2017 - 14:40

Close-Up presents the final two programmes of Mika Taanila’s London-wide survey, and parallel interventions in sound and silence, featuring Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) and Erkki Kurenniemi.
Dates:
Friday, October 20, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, October 22, 2017 (All day)
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
pic.london festival

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 16/10/2017 - 16:19

As part of their inaugural festival, pic.london presents a two-day film programme exploring the relationship between still and moving images. Beginning with film’s infancy at the end of the 19th Century – through the 1960s avant-garde – this programme investigates the ways in which artists and theorists have engaged the moving image to develop, challenge and critique photographic language.
Dates:
Saturday, October 28, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, October 29, 2017 (All day)
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
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 - London, United Kingdom
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 - London, United Kingdom
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 - London, United Kingdom
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 - London, United Kingdom

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