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Fri 24 May, 8.15pm: Film Talks Programme 1


Part 1 of Film Talks, a touring programme which features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by artists who contributed to Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema.
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Sat 25 May, 12.30pm: The Lock-In

Sat 25 May, 12.30pm: The Lock-In

The Lock-In never ends. Consisting entirely of pub footage from the British soap opera EastEnders, it is endless inasmuch as its source is endless and its makers living.
Sat 25 May, 8.15pm: Film Talks Programme 2

Sat 25 May, 8.15pm: Film Talks Programme 2

Part 1 of Film Talks a touring programme, which features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by artists who contributed to Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema.
Sun 26 May, 6pm: Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance

Sun 26 May, 6pm: Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance

Close-Up is delighted to present a multimedia event marking the release of purge.xxx record, with Stanley Schtinter present to introduce Genet’s novel, as well as a selection of films by Takashi Ito, and fragments documenting Prisoner of Love’s Japanese performance.
Sun 26 May, 8pm: Something to Live for

Sun 26 May, 8pm: Something to Live for

This crowning jewel of American cinema, nearly as good as the best of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman, is one of the least known masterpieces of the 1950s.

In May

19 - 31 May 2024: The Gospel According to Matthew

19 - 31 May 2024: The Gospel According to Matthew

Pasolini’s disarmingly straightforward version of the life of Christ secured his reputation as a filmmaker, rather than simply a poet dabbling in cinema. Aiming to strip away the sanctimony typical of screen adaptations of the Gospels, Pasolini sought to recover the rough poetry of the original texts, pointedly omitting the “Saint” from his title to secularize Matthew.
24 - 25 May 2024: Film Talks: A Touring Programme of Experimental Cinema

24 - 25 May 2024: Film Talks: A Touring Programme of Experimental Cinema

Film Talks is a two-part programme, which features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by artists who contributed to the Contact book Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, showing in several venues in North America. The screenings at Close-Up are the culmination of the touring programme and the present iteration of Contact's Film Talks project.
30 May 2024: Video Visions: Stephen Littman / David Larcher

30 May 2024: Video Visions: Stephen Littman / David Larcher

A survey of some of Stephen Littman’s videos alongside sequences from the work of David Larcher (1942-2023) that Littman has compiled. Littman’s videos have included highly personal imagery as well as formal and process-orientated investigations of electronic imaging. Like Larcher, he has always been keen to explore the expressive potential of the technology and push it to extremes.

Calendar

Fri 24 May 8:15pm
Film Talks Programme 1
Sat 25 May 12:30pm
The Lock-In
Sat 25 May 8:15pm
Film Talks Programme 2
Sun 26 May 8:00pm
Something to Live for
Thu 30 May 8:15pm
Video Visions