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Showing This Week
Sunday 22 September: In the Shadow of the Sun
In The Shadow of the Sun is a fire film, an English Apocalypse, starting with a journey to the stone circle at Avebury, near Stonehenge...
Sunday 22 September: The Angelic Conversation
A classic of experimental filmmaking by Derek Jarman. The images-beautiful in a grainy, unpolished way-consist of "people I like in place and spaces I like," young men in the landscape swimming at the beach, seen at windows, in the forest, making love. The soundtrack, set to music by Coil, is Judi Dench's reading of fourteen of Shakespeare's sonnets, those written to the young man.
Showing Next Week
Tuesday 24 September: Ghosts of Landscapes Present
This programme of beautiful 16mm shorts provides some little seen works by psychogeographic heavyweights such as Patrick Keiller and John Smith. Enter a world filled with dancing buildings, eerie church bells, and walking games galore.
Wednesday 25 September: Requiem for a Village
Directed by master cinematographer David Gladwell, Requiem for a Village explores the provincial past of a Suffolk town, poetically drifting through eras, allowing us to experience the portent of a place and its history all at once.
Thursday 26 September: The Liberated Film Club IX with Laura Mulvey
"Because you're sick of knowing exactly what you're going to get and you're sick when you get it." We're thrilled to welcome Laura Mulvey as our special guest for the ninth instalment of The Liberated Film Club. Free to attend for Close-Up members, but booking is essential.
Friday 27 September: The Last of England
The Last of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.
Saturday 28 September: Derek Jarman's Super 8 Film Cycle
Super 8mm film was Derek Jarman’s primary medium in the 70’s and the Derek Jarman Super 8 archive comprises of all the personal film work that Jarman made between 1970 and 1983 and contains over 80 individual titles which were filmed and edited by Jarman himself. This programme presents a small selection of these films in new 2K restorations.
Saturday 28 September: The Garden
Jarman the gardener is a dreamer… His starting points are his own failing body, his home, and his garden. From these, his inner self conjures the dreams that fill the film, some rooted in his own secret desires, some drawn from his long-established interests as an artist, some born from his impotent anger at the world.
Sunday 29 September: Blue
Derek Jarman's Blue is a rhapsodic hymn to love, dedicated to "all true lovers"...It is also a work at the outer limits of cinematic expression: seventy-six minutes of luminous blue screen complemented by a meticulously recorded soundtrack
Calendar
Tue 24 Sep 8:15pm
Ghosts of Landscapes Present
Ghosts of Landscapes Present
Wed 25 Sep 8:15pm
Requiem for a Village
Requiem for a Village
Thu 26 Sep 8:15pm
The Liberated Film Club IX with Laura Mulvey
The Liberated Film Club IX with Laura Mulvey
Fri 27 Sep 8:15pm
The Last of England
The Last of England
Sat 28 Sep 6:00pm
Derek Jarman's Super 8 Film Cycle
Derek Jarman's Super 8 Film Cycle
Sat 28 Sep 8:00pm
The Garden
The Garden
Sun 29 Sep 8:00pm
Blue
Blue
Mon 30 Sep 8:15pm
The Angelic Conversation
The Angelic Conversation
Fri 04 Oct 8:00pm
GUO present GYUTO
GUO present GYUTO
Wed 09 Oct 8:15pm
No Home Movie
No Home Movie
Mon 04 Nov 7:00pm
Film Course: Surrealism and Cinema
Film Course: Surrealism and Cinema
Fri 08 Nov 8:00pm
LKFF: A Hometown of the Heart
LKFF: A Hometown of the Heart
Sat 09 Nov 8:00pm
LKFF: Piagol
LKFF: Piagol
Sun 10 Nov 8:00pm
LKFF: A Woman Judge
LKFF: A Woman Judge
