Close-Up is thrilled to welcome Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Mazzolo to present and introduce a selection of his 16mm and 35mm works.

Claes Söderquist is a prominent figure of Swedish experimental film whose visually appealing and personal films revolve around slow cinematic reflections on architecture, landscape, strata, time and space. With influences from and interests in Land-Art, minimalist music (like Charlemagne Palestine) and structural film processes, Söderquist's dystopian and desolate scenery is sometimes reminiscent of the films by Michael Snow and Larry Gottheim.

Berlin-based Deborah Phillips works with a range of analogue media, including print, painting, collage and film: she is about to publish a catalogue covering thirty years’ work. Phillips has been researching the colours red, blue and green for over ten years: here she presents some of the results, in film and performance, including the world premiere of her “green” film, Im Grünen Bereich. Closing the evening, and in contrast to Phillips’ films, Karel Doing premieres his black and white work-in-progress Symbiogenesis.

Frans Zwartjes passed away on November 18, 2017. He was ninety years old.

Best known for his experimental shorts produced in the 1960s and 70s, Zwartjes was goth before there was such a thing (which the culture has since determinedly undermined). He was the first artist to unlock the potential of the selfie (which the culture has since determinedly undermined), and he was the precursor to the Fassbindian approach to "family" filmmaking (which the culture has since determinedly avoided). Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important experimental filmmaker of his generation", and he has been either cited or ripped off whole-sale by a generation of artists and filmmakers since.