The Liberated Film Club: David Keenan

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Close-Up, we are delighted to announce the return of Stanley Schtinter's legendary Liberated Film Club. Running twice monthly for an entire year, from July 2025 to July 2026, we will launch the series with a programme curated and presented by very special guest David Keenan.

David Keenan is the author of six critically acclaimed novels: the cult classic, This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize and was shortlisted for the Encore award, Xstabeth/The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year and Industry of Magic & Light. He is also the author of Volcanic Tongue, which collects his music writing over 25 years, and England’s Hidden Reverse, a history of the UK’s post-punk and Industrial music scenes. He has been writing about music since he was 17 years old, most consistently for The Wire, and between the years 2005 and 2015 he co-ran the cult Glasgow record shop Volcanic Tongue.

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The Liberated Film Club will run twice monthly from July 2025 to July 2026. No film titles are announced in advance of the screenings. More info here