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Tribute: Peter Hutton’s Haikus
August 30 - 31, 2017, Close-Up Cinema, London
Rattis Books and Close-Up Cinema pay tribute to the visionary artist Peter Hutton, one year on from his passing. Presenting the first substantial screening of Hutton’s works in London in a decade, this two-night programme, introduced by writer, critic & curator Ed Halter, focuses on a cross-section of the film-maker’s intimate and lush portraits of urban, rural and marine environments.
[Photos] The enduring magic of G Aravindan’s cinema
by thereel.scroll.in
...film festivals will hopefully take note of this programme and make a similar effort to re-introduce Aravindan to both older loyalists and younger cineastes."
https://thereel.scroll.in/828403/photos-the-enduring-magic-of-g-aravindans-cinema
Stephen (Esthappan, 1980)
4 - 17 February 2017, Close-Up Cinema, London
Mythical Poetry : The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan
After Kanchana Seeta (1977), the mythical dimension of Aravindan's cinema acquires a quasi-real, quasi-mythical character in Esthappan (1980). The protagonist of Esthappan hails from the Latin Christian fishermen community in Kerala. An enigmatic figure defying spatiotemporality, like many others in Aravindan's films resides at the periphery of society. In Aravindan's own words, ..."He was a very ordinary man. You understand Esthappan only through the stories people relate about him. There are people who tell one story in many different ways. In the film there is one person giving two stories of the same event. At this rate we don't know what is real and what is mythical. The issue here is which of the stories about Esthappan is right. Perhaps all of them are right, perhaps all are wrong." The film ends with a mythical dance play that embodies the essence of Esthappan which Ashish Rajadhyaksha identifies as Chavittu Natakam, a form derived from Portuguese passion plays that arrived on the Indian shores in the 16th Century with the arrival of Portuguese missionaries in Kerala. A drama derived from one such passion play, Jesus Cristo's Auto da Paixão influenced Manoel de Oliveira's Acto da Primavera (1963). Part of our Mythical Poetry: The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan at Close-Up Cinema.
Golden Seeta (Kanchana Seeta, 1977)
3-12 Feb 2017, Close-Up Cinema, London
Mythical Poetry : The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan
Aravindan's film Golden Seeta (Kanchana Seeta, 1977) based on C N Sreekantan's play and the Indian epic Ramayana is perhaps his most enchanting film. The sparsity of dialogues, the essence of Seeta nurtured through the moods of nature with evocative musical notes that complement the visuals - a cinematic treatise on the harmony and discord of man and nature, reminding us of the juxtaposition of Vartanov's poetic images with Vivaldi's compositions in Artavazd Pelechian's 'Seasons of the year' (1975), the tribals enacting the mythical figures all married to Shaji N. Karun's inspired cinematography produce a unique poetic experience that concludes with Rama's suggestive suicide as he walks into River Saraya under the setting sun, a suggestive communion with Seeta. Aravindan's casting of rustic tribals as mythical figures, the Rama Chenchus from AP, inspired by sculptures have a strong physical presence, their faces exude a certain pre-industrial innocence like the Palestine children whom Pier Paolo Pasolini met while scouting location for The Gospel according to St.Matthew (1964) or the villagers who enact the Passion of Christ in Manoel de Oliveira's Acto da Primavera (1963). The opening film of our retrospective Mythical Poetry : The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan screening at the Close-Up Cinema, London.
A self-portrait by G.Aravindan - artist-filmmaker in spotlight as part of our February 2017 film programme Mythical Poetry : The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan hosted by the Close-Up Cinema, London
RETROSPECTIVE: Mythical Poetry : The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan
We are pleased to present the first European retrospective of the artist-filmmaker Govindan Aravindan in February 2017 at the Close-Up Cinema, London. More information here : http://www.rattisbooks.co.uk/film-programmes.html
This beautiful A2 letterpress poster has been designed by The Counter Press
DEGREE SHOW FILM PROGRAMME
Friday 27th-Sunday 29th May The Church, Historic Dockyard Chatham
FREE to the Public
Friday 27th May
11:00 The Foley Gallery
Sophie Brown
11:15 The Big Ghana Game
Daniel Owusu
11:35 Zulu certified PG
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift
1:55 Camera Head, Holding up a Mirror
Mandeep Mangat
2:10 A day at the Park and A day by the Sea
José Fernández Levy
2:20 Her certified 15
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need
Saturday 28th May
11:00 Fuscaldo
Nadia Perotta
11:20 Hiding your Emotions is Despicable
Daniel Owusu and Olu Taiwo
11:35 Sinks
Abigail Mackay
12:00 Bombay Beach
Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists from one of the poorest communities in Southern California
1:30 Hotel 70
Bedwyr Williams
1:45 The Dance Teacher: A Gestural Index
Performance by Moira Goff and Steve Klee
2:00 Perpetual liquidity
Film Screening as part of the exhibition Of the Sea featuring films by Alia Pathan, Anaïs Tondeur, Anas Al-Shaikh, Daniel Wechsler, Etta Säfve & Elin Maria Johansson, Joanna Millett, Linda Persson, Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn, Steve Klee and Ting-Ting Cheng
3:45 A Wing and a Prayer
Alia Syed
Sunday 29th May
11:00 Paft
Claudia Chiappini
11:20 Looking Ahead
A selection of works by first and second year fine art students Lalita Bailey, Nicola Baxter and Rose Sizer
12:40 Darwin’s Nightmare
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria
2:30 Gillingham 2016
Abigail Mackay
3:30 Virtual Copy
Medina Kareava
3:40 Unpremeditated
Ayda Majd Ardekani
3:50 Translation of territories created by the British Empire being subverted by the movement of the Meridian Slugs
Mandeep Mangat
4:00 Tired and Crying
Abigail Mackay
