A young man leaves his village to audition for a dance company in town. He starts getting involved in illegal activities. So begins Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze’s first feature, and before long what may seem like a fairly straightforward film proves itself to be a source of frequent wonders.
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New season DRIFTING SHADOWS: MASTERPIECES OF FINNISH CINEMA at Close-Up (18 to 30 JAN 2019) “sheds light on one of the most overlooked Nordic national cinemas which is currently enjoying a boom in audience success, production volume, and versatility.”
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In the third of a new series of posts with our friends at Close-Up Film Centre, RADIANT CIRCUS chats to guest curator Eleonora Pesci about THE PURSUIT OF WHOLENESS, a programme which pays tribute to seminal avant-garde filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos (07 to 09 DEC).
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In the second of a new series of posts with our friends at Close-Up Film Centre, RADIANT CIRCUS chats to guest curator Andrew Gutman about UP NORTH & UNDERGROUND, a programme of under-screened classics of the Canadian underground film scene (03 to 04 DEC).
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In the first of a new series of posts with our friends at Close-Up Film Centre, RADIANT CIRCUS chats to guest curator Francesco Maria Carreri about found footage programme NEVER FOUND: ALTERNATE HISTORIES OF THE 20th CENTURY (07 to 15 NOV).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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