WHAT'S ON THE WEEK AFTER THAT/ JUNE 27TH - JULY 3RD

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CLOSE UP FILM SCREENING

Time: 8pm. Doors open at 7.45pm /Tickets: £5/FREE to Close-Up members

3 May – 5 July : Close-Up On Jean-Luc Godard

One of the most influential directors in the cinema history, Jean-Luc Godard has played a fundamental role in shaping the art form. His early films established the language of the French Nouvelle Vague and through his long career he has consistently produced stylistically radical, politically uncompromising work, culminating in his epic, dense exploration of cinema’s enactment with twentieth-century history, Histoire(s) Du Cinema.

This eight-week long season spans Godard’s career from his 1959 debut feature Breathless to last year’s Film Socialisme (tbc), which Godard has claimed will be his final film and has only been screened once before in the UK.

Godard began his career as a writer for the French film journal Cahiers Du Cinéma and this season compliments and coincides with Close-Up’s re-launch of the influential film magazine Vertigo, with an issue dedicated to the cinema of Godard due on 1 June at www.vertigomagazine.co.uk

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA – PART 1-2
1a Toutes les Histoires (1988 | 51 mins)
1b Une Histoire Seule (1989 | 42 mins)
2a Seul le Cinéma (1997 | 26 mins)
2b Fatale Beauté (1997 | 28 mins)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1988-97 | France | 147 mins | Colour & B/W

Jean-Luc Godard's video series Histoire(s) Du Cinema, consists of eight episodes made over a period of ten years. Hugely ambitious in scope, the series covers a wide range of topics from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and beyond.

"My Histoire(s) du Cinema starts with a chapter called Toutes les Histoires, a lot of small stories in which signs can be seen. It then goes on to say that this story is alone – the only story that has ever been. Then – you know my immoderate ambition – I say: not only is it alone, but it is the only one that will ever be and that has ever been (after, it will not be a story but something else). It is my mission to tell it.(…) "What Follows are brief studies, like cuts. One is called Fatale Beaute in memory of a film by Siodmak, The Great Sinner, with Ava Gardner, based on 'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. My idea was that cinema is mostly boys filming girls and it is proved fatal to this story…"  Jean-Luc Godard

Tuesday 5 July - HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA – PART 3-4

HOMEWORK

7:30 doors. It costs £5. No advance tickets, just arrive early to get a seat

We’re proud to announce that our literary cabaret night is returning to London’s East End for a fourth year running.

Residents

John Osborne, Tim Clare, Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland and Joe Dunthorne

return for another year of vague literary ephemera.

Last season ended with every audience member in the venue wearing a Tom Cruise mask, shouting out the poem from the movie Cocktail. It was our most fun night to-date, raising the bar in terms of entertainment, whilst simultaneously lowering the bar for quality of work. GOOD JOB TEAM!

Season 4 runs June-November 2011. It happens on the last Wednesday of every month!

1. Conspiracy Theories

Tim Clare premieres ‘A Very Short Poem‘ — a long poem that explores paranoia, delusion and conspiracy. Feature support from Ross Sutherland who presents his documentary, Every Rendition on a Broken Machine, with a live voiceover (see trailer below). Support comes from the Homework residents presenting new work that explores the changing relationship between us and our reptilian overlords.

Every Rendition on a Broken Machine by Ross Sutherland (Trailer) from londonwordfestival on Vimeo.

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