Close-Up presents a programme of Irish experimental cinema curated by Esperanza Collado.
Film
Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider
1964 | 17 mins | B/W | 16mm
A man carefully blots out all external reality. A philosophical principle prevails – George Berkeley's Esse est percipi – while the Film contains elements of comedy.
Emtigon
Joe Comerford
1965 | 10 mins | B/W | Digital
An elliptical narrative with an injection of perverted Irish humour.
Un Peu Moins
Donal O'Ceilleachair, Konstantin Bojanov
2006 | 6 mins | B/W and Colour | DV
Somewhere between innocence and eroticism, between geography and stasis.
She Had her Gun All Ready
Vivienne Dick
1978 | 22 mins | Colour | 16mm
This Film noir/melodrama set in the Lower East Side is a study of women's anger and hatred of women at the crucial moment of overpowering identification and obsessional thraldom.
Saint Francis Didn't Run Numbers
Christopher O'Neill
2009 | 4 mins | Colour | Digital
"Excavates new and surprising spaces from a famous American film of the '70s, abstracting a silent, hidden universe from the bustle of narrativity." – Maximilian Le Cain
Sister Mary or Mary The Junkie
Christopher O'Neill
2010 | 2 mins | Colour | Digital
One figure is seen in three distinctive images, which have been manipulated and isolated to illustrate a different meaning to its original source material.
After & Before
Barry Ronan
2009 | 2 mins | Colour | Digital
Superimposition of landscapes shot as an expressionistic canvas with Brakhagean reminiscences.
Making a Home
Maximilian Le Cain
2007 | 10 mins | B/W & Colour | Digital
A "thinking space" full of possible discoveries dwelling for and from internal desires using the mystery implied by the given architectural space, which fails.
From the Sea
Alan Lambert
2000 | Variable duration | Colour | 35mm
A strip of corroded 35mm Film found washed up on a beach in Valencia, Spain, in 1996.