Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shoot
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More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shoot
Gabon's Loango National Park is home to a group of western lowland gorillas who have become accustomed to biologists who have studied them for almost twenty years. This documentary presents an intimate look at the silver
On the eve of his 30th birthday, a gay slacker must overcome his crippling insecurities in order to find love.
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayer
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a tr
Created for Close-Up Cinema's 20th Anniversary
The escape towards the other side of a setting which restores nothing.
A trip back to the own roots, into the troubled country of Kurdistan.
Join Moses on an odyssey of self-reflection as they discuss sex, love, and life in New York City.
Hold me like an amphitheater, I need space to stretch my longing. Touch starved and hell bent, an exhale of earthly hungers.
A painted paper cut out film celebrating movement and colour.
Close Up is a provocative and potentially dangerous pulling together of two opposing aspects of film form - namely, a 'documentartist' soundtrack comprising interview material with Nicaraguan revolutionaries on the subje
A Belgian filmmaker is under suspicion of having committed a brutal killing-spree in a New York bar.
Bertie heads to South Africa for his most audacious mission yet. The wild waters here are a hotspot for one of the ocean’s most famous and feared predators, the great white shark. Diving in the shallows without a cage, B
told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; his wife and child
Made for the 20th anniversary of London’s Close-Up Film Centre, Close Up was created as part of a programme inviting fifty filmmakers to respond to a place dedicated to cinema. Rivers’ two-minute 16mm miniature becomes a
A photographer accidentally photographs a Nazi war criminal on the streets of New York and becomes a target for reprisals and murder.
The documentary gives us a unique insight into the life of a pop star who broke through at ten years old. We follow her around the world and see a side she's never shown before. This is the story of an artist reaching fo