Close Up January Programme
The Working Men’s Club, London
Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
Doors open at 7.45 pm
TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2010 8pm: MICHAEL ROBINSON – 8 FILMS
This programme features 8 films by experimental filmmaker Michael Robinson followed by a Q&A with the artist. Since 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience. His work has screened in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, cinematheques and galleries including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival & Anthology Film Archives.
“There can no longer be any question that Robinson is the most significant
new experimental filmmaker to emerge in the last decade.” – Michael
Sicinski, Green-Cine Daily
AND WE ALL SHINE ON
2006 | 7 mins | 16mm | Colour
IF THERE BE THORNS
2009 | 13 mins | 16mm & DV
HOLD ME NOW
2008 | 5 mins, | DV
YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS
2005 | 8 mins | 16mm | Colour
LIGHT IS WAITING
2007 | 11 mins | DV
THE GENERAL RETURNS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
2006 | 11 mins | 16mm & DV
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
2008 | 4 mins | DV
VICTORY OVER THE SUN
2007 | 13 mins | 16mm | Colour
Followed by a Q&A with the artist
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TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 2010 8pm
HISTORIES OF THE AVANT-GARDE – PART III : PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL BY STAN BRAKHAGE + MUSICAL STAIRS BY GUY SHERWIN.
A chance to see one of Brakhage’s most important sound films for the FIRST
time in London alongside Guy Sherwin’s Optical Sound film Musical Stairs.
Parts I and II of Histories of the Avant-Garde looked at the resolutely,
intensely silent Brakhage film Riddle of Lumen and Guy Sherwin’s Short
Film Series. Part 3 enters the world of sound with these two filmmkakers
and also looks forward to Part 4 in February, which will be examining
music’s manifold relationship to Film with five American masters.
PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL
Stan Brakhage
1990 | USA | 50 mins | Colour |16mm
MUSICAL STAIRS
Guy Sherwin
1977 | UK | 9 mins | B&W | 16mm
Close-Up now offer a fantastic monthly Membership fee of £10 which
entitles you to access the full catalogue of the Library (Back Catalogue
and New Releases included) and borrow 3 films at any given time + FREE
access to all their Repertory Cinema screenings and reduced admission to
all special film events presented or supported by Close-Up.
