Close-Up Cinema: In Reality

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Curated by artist and filmmaker Karel Doing, this programme brings together films and videos exploring alternative understandings of reality. Nine filmmakers present works that utilise documentary materials to (re)create personal visions and open viewers’ perceptions to outlandish – political, emotional, or structural – realities, that stimulate free thinking expression.

Programme:
- Model Village (Lucy Harris & Sybella Perry, 2016, 3 min, Colour, 16mm)
The mysterious past of a model village is explored via a re-discovered photo album, post cards, sound and field recordings. An exploration of the observer and the observed, Model Village is a film of illusion, scale and curiosity.

- Cremer (Lucy Harris & David Leister, 2013, 8 min, B/W, 16mm)
Somewhere between a photograph, a document and a film, Cremer is an abstract documentation of a lost studio. It is a collaborative record and examination of the fire and resulting smoke damage that took place in the artists' studio in 2006. As film is exposed to light, the studio was exposed to smoke, leaving a shadow or imprint on all surfaces, almost like x-ray images. Whilst melancholic in tone, and a lament to the loss of the studio and all its related film elements, it also points to film's resistance to destruction.

- Nature Morte (Jim Hobbs, 2015, 10 min, B/W, 16mm)
Looking at Robert Mapplethorpe’s early flower photographs, Hobbs shows that the flowers represented here are simultaneously life and death – and as such have a frequency that hums with tension. With a focused and durational gaze, each "still life" explores the visual beauty of a staged composition, while at the same time searching for moments within the frame that utilize the optical soundtrack on the film’s surface to create sonic equivalent. Here, the image is sound, and the sound is image.

- Gasometers Part 2 (Nicky Hamlyn, 2015, 14 min, Colour & B/W, 16mm)
A study of a pair of redundant gas holders – Gasometers – in Ladysmith Road, North Tottenham. The film combines real-time shooting, pixillated sections and time-lapse sequences to generate a diverse and partial account of the gasometers and their demolition.

- Machinic Phylum (Guli Silberstein, 2014, 4 min, Colour, Digital)
A symbiosis of human and nature forms, by direct manipulation of video code, purposely damaging it in "glitch" process, creating rich explosions of colour and form. The images, a little girl in a flower field, Earth from space and bits of satellites, become vibrant substance, where the girl and the environment interact in a constant process of mutual consumption, reflecting poetic perception of existence. "The machinic phylum is materiality, natural or artificial, both simultaneously; it is matter in movement, in flux, in variation".

- Tamesa (Rosalind Fowler, 2014, 11 min, Colour & B/W, Digital)
The artist searches for traces of the river Thames’ distant past by processing 16mm film on the foreshore using water collected at low tide. The experiment takes place adjacent to Battersea bridge, a site where archaeological finds suggests significant ritual activity. Images of water patterns and foreshore detritus are combined with close-up textures of pre-historic objects such as skulls and flint axe-heads discovered in the area. Watermarks and particles of ancient river silt cling to the resultant film’s surface, their abstract formations a portal to the unseen forces at work in the river.

- London Republic (William Raban, 2016, 2 min, Colour, Digital)
Uploaded to Vimeo on 30 April 2016, London Republic speculates on the outcome of the EU referendum. This is a satirical fairytale – a political provocation that invites the audience to guess the outcome of the referendum to decide London's fate within Europe.

- Commonwealth Archipelago (Andrew Vallance, 2016, 15 min, Colour, Digital)
There are many Londons and each has its own entwined temporalities, resonances and evolving histories. Commonwealth Archipelago traces desire lines, the personal effect on time and place, and how with each encounter the city is remade anew.

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Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido

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De Domingo, Agosto 28, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Lunes, Agosto 29, 2016 - 19:55

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De Domingo, Agosto 28, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Lunes, Agosto 29, 2016 - 19:55

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