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VERTIGO MAGAZINE

Issue 30 | Spring 2012: Godard Is.


We are delighted to announce the relaunch of Vertigo Magazine! After two years of silence Vertigo is back with a special issue on Jean-Luc Godard.

Articles by: Frieda Grafe, Duncan White, Roland-François Lack, Robert Barry, Jerry White, Corin Depper, James Norton, David Brancaleone, Ágnes Pethő, James Williams, Jürgen Müller, Adrian Martin
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What’s On

29 May 2012: James Benning – Landscape Suicide

29 May 2012: James Benning – Landscape Suicide


For 40 years, James Benning has been a singular, defiant voice in the American independent film scene. In Landscape Suicide, he effortlessly strides the boundaries of narrative and documentary forms as he recounts two infamous murder cases that took place almost 30 years apart.
18 - 19 May 2012: Powers of the False Symposium

18 - 19 May 2012: Powers of the False Symposium


Close-Up will be participating in a two day symposium on the ethics of falsification and fiction in the documentary film. The programme and panels addresses the complex ethics of the manipulation of real people and events in documentary, fact-fiction hybrid cinema and artists’ moving image.
11 - 26 May 2012: Tate Modern Presents: Christoph Schlingensief

11 - 26 May 2012: Tate Modern Presents: Christoph Schlingensief


Close-Up members get exclusive discounts on tickets for the unique Christoph Schlingensief series at Tate Modern.
17 May - 6 June 2012: BFI Presents: Essential Experiments

17 May - 6 June 2012: BFI Presents: Essential Experiments


From classic masterpieces to modern wonders from the collections of the BFI National Archive. Close-Up members get exclusive discounts.
31 May 2012: ICA Presents: I Am Dora, by Jemma Desai – Launch Screening

31 May 2012: ICA Presents: I Am Dora, by Jemma Desai – Launch Screening


Close-Up members get an exclusive discount on tickets for the launch screening of new publication I Am Dora.
Genesis Cinema's Auteurnative Seasons

Genesis Cinema's Auteurnative Seasons


Close-Up Members get £3 discount on all screenings of the Genesis Cinema's Auteurnative Season! Genesis Cinema is delighted to present a fantastic season of rarely screened auteur classics.
2 - 31 May 2012: BFI Presents: Jean Gabin Retrospective

2 - 31 May 2012: BFI Presents: Jean Gabin Retrospective


The BFI celebrates the career of the magnetic French star.
Close-Up members get an exclusive discount on all ticket prices!

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INTERVIEW

Vertigo Presents: Interview with Chris Marker

By Dolores Walfisch


From Vertigo's Archive: Chris Marker in interview ahead of the screening of L'Ambassade in May.
INTERVIEW

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 2 ½

By Robert Chilcott


Ahead of the screening of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm at the 'Powers of the False Symposium', read Robert Chilcott's interview with director William Greaves.
Vertigo Issue 6
INTERVIEW

An interview with Artist Ben Rivers

By William Rose


Ben Rivers' Two Years at See will be screened at the 'Powers fo the False Symposium' this May.
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VIDEO

Very Nice Very Nice

By Arthur Lipsett


Arthur Lipsett's first film. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing.
VIDEO

Black And White Trypps Number Four

By Ben Russell


Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos...

Dossiers

DOSSIER

Jean-Luc Godard


A selection of the best writting on Jean-Luc Godard from the Close-Up archive.

New Additions

FILM

Bliss

Director: Ray Lawrence
FILM

Zwerk

Director: Bart Vegter
FILM

Uttoran

Director: Sadeep Ray