Close-Up Archives - RADIANT CIRCUS

Films in London today: LOVE MEETINGS screens at Close-Up (13 MAY).

NEW SEASON: Close-Up on Pier Paolo Pasolini [until 29 MAY]

Close-Up Film Centre has started a new season of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini [until 29 MAY]. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS guide to what’s on.

JAAP PIETERS screens at Close-Up (01 MAY).

THE LONG GAZE + Q&A

Jaap Pieters, the “eye of Amsterdam”, began shooting films in Super8 in 1985. Much of his work concentrates on urban subjects – trams, crossroads, city dwellers and drifters – to which Pieters directs his voyeuristic gaze to capture their everyday existence.

LA BOCCA DEL LUPO 35mm

Close-Up welcomes Pietro Marcello to present a rare screening of his debut feature on 35mm. Marcello will be in conversation with Tony Grisoni following the screening.

RADIANT CIRCUS SCREEN GUIDE - NOW SHOWING: CARRIE screens at Close-Up (30 MAR).

TAKE TWO: CARRIE + THELMA

A double bill split over two days. The sexual awakening of two shy young women raised according to fundamentalist religious beliefs seemingly sparks telekinetic abilities they struggle to understand and control.

TAKE TWO: CARRIE + THELMA

COLOURMATION: DEBORAH S PHILLIPS & KAREL DOING

Berlin-based artist Deborah S Phillips screens a selection of her Super8, 16mm and performance works alongside a new film/performance by Karel Doing.

EMPLACING

UEL Moving Image Research Centre presents a programme looking at the relation of artist-filmmakers to urban and public space and the architectural endeavour. Featuring seven films by London-based artists.

HARD TO BE A GOD

A work of staggeringly visceral cinema, the epic, phantasmagoric final film of late Russian cinema god Alexei German imagines a world in which the Renaissance never happened.

STRAIN ANDROMEDA THE

A project of complete appropriation, Anne McGuire’s version of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel, reverses the film, every shot re-cut so that the last becomes the first, and the first becomes the last.

EXTRACTED & CIRCULATED: MATERIAL EXCHANGE

The second edition of the Extracted and Circulated screening series. It is a series “as compilation, as assembly, as a production of new work where each video folds and unfolds into the next and where the hierarchies of found, processed, and produced material dissolve”.