Welcome to Close-Up!
What's On
Thu 18 April, 8.15pm: Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn
A Contact programme presenting the films of Helga Fanderl and Nicky Hamlyn who will be in attendance to introduce and discuss their work.
Fri 19 April, 8.15pm: Bacurau
Set in the remote backcountry of Brazil, Bacurau follows a tight-knit village community’s bloody and brutal fight for its own survival. With unforgettable turns from Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, this is an audacious, original and violent blend of neo-Western and political allegory.
Sat 20 April, 6pm: Mascara 28
For the 28th iteration of Mascara Film Club we will focus on imperfect narrators, child's play and the dead-ends of language.
Sat 20 April, 8pm: Samsara
In Buddhist philosophy, the word “samsara” refers to the nature of life as a cycle of deaths and rebirths. It is this process that Lois Patiño evokes to breath-taking effect in Samsara, a film with a triptych structure that follows a soul from the body of Mon (Simone Milavanh), an elderly woman in Laos, and later into the form of a baby goat in Zanzibar.
Sun 21 April, 4.30pm: A Grin Without a Cat
At turns mordant and mournful, A Grin Without a Cat uses an extraordinary range of source material – newsreels, propaganda films and Marker’s own footage – to construct a polyphonic, immersive and critical history of political struggle.
Sun 21 April, 8pm: Misunderstood
Director Luigi Comenicini captures the innocence and carefree moments of youth alongside the agonising feelings of grief, creating one of the finest films about childhood, one which can stand alongside The 400 Blows, The Spirit of the Beehive and L'enfance nue.
Calendar
Fri 19 Apr 8:15pm
Bacurau
Bacurau
Sat 20 Apr 6:00pm
Mascara 28
Mascara 28
Sat 20 Apr 8:00pm
Samsara
Samsara
Sun 21 Apr 4:30pm
A Grin Without a Cat
A Grin Without a Cat
Sun 21 Apr 8:00pm
Misunderstood
Misunderstood
Thu 25 Apr 8:30pm
Losing Ground + GAMA
Losing Ground + GAMA
Fri 26 Apr 6:15pm
Absent Forces
Absent Forces
