“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick”. We're thrilled to present 8 films by one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde cinema, Maya Deren

Shot in Berlin, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. In part, centred around objects, this programme also includes two short films: Peter Todd's a spoon and Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin’s Fenster. The filmmakers will be in conversation with Gareth Evans after the screening.

Film Talks is a two-part programme, which features twenty-one 16mm films and video works by artists who contributed to the Contact book Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, showing in several venues in North America. The screenings at Close-Up are the culmination of the touring programme and the present iteration of Contact's Film Talks project.

The Lock-In never ends. Consisting entirely of pub footage from the British soap opera EastEnders, it is endless inasmuch as its source is endless and its makers living.

Close-Up is delighted to present a multimedia event marking the release of purge.xxx record, with Stanley Schtinter present to introduce Genet’s novel, as well as a selection of films by Takashi Ito, and fragments documenting Prisoner of Love’s Japanese performance.

This crowning jewel of American cinema, nearly as good as the best of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman, is one of the least known masterpieces of the 1950s.

A survey of some of Stephen Littman’s videos alongside sequences from the work of David Larcher (1942-2023) that Littman has compiled. Littman’s videos have included highly personal imagery as well as formal and process-orientated investigations of electronic imaging. Like Larcher, he has always been keen to explore the expressive potential of the technology and push it to extremes.