Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Recent projects have addressed freedom, expansionism, surveillance, sonic warfare, public speech, ghosts, sinkholes, levitation, propagation, orthoptera, raptors, comets and faith.

Close-Up is thrilled to welcome Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Mazzolo to present and introduce a selection of his 16mm and 35mm works.

Claes Söderquist is a prominent figure of Swedish experimental film whose visually appealing and personal films revolve around slow cinematic reflections on architecture, landscape, strata, time and space. With influences from and interests in Land-Art, minimalist music (like Charlemagne Palestine) and structural film processes, Söderquist's dystopian and desolate scenery is sometimes reminiscent of the films by Michael Snow and Larry Gottheim.

Berlin-based Deborah Phillips works with a range of analogue media, including print, painting, collage and film: she is about to publish a catalogue covering thirty years’ work. Phillips has been researching the colours red, blue and green for over ten years: here she presents some of the results, in film and performance, including the world premiere of her “green” film, Im Grünen Bereich. Closing the evening, and in contrast to Phillips’ films, Karel Doing premieres his black and white work-in-progress Symbiogenesis.