Close-Up Film Programme January 2012
Darryl Wiggers <[email protected]>
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From: Damien Sanville <[email protected]> Hello, Happy New Year to you all! Please find below Close-Up January 2012 Film Programme. Stills are available on request. Please let me know if you'd like to attend any of those screenings and I will put your name on the guest list. Best wishes, Damien ______________________________________________________________ CLOSE-UP 020 7739 3634 - www.closeupfilmcentre.com Venue: The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB - Nearest Underground: Bethnal Green Tickets: £5/FREE to Close-Up Members ______________________________________________________________ Tuesday 31 January 8pm: Jan Peters …but I still haven’t figured out the meaning of life Jan Peters | 1984 | Germany | 75 mins | Colour & B/W To start the new year on a jolly note Close-Up present Jan Peters’ auto-biographical work-in-progress …but I still haven’t figured out the meaning of life, 18 self-portraits shot on various formats from Super-8 to mobile phone, covering his complex existence from 24 to 40 years old. “This cycle (…) represents a highly original contribution to the body of German-language experimental film.” Claus Löser “In 1990 I stood in front of my Super-8 sound movie camera for the first time to record a stocktaking of my life. The final product was the film Ich bin 24 in which I talk about my life for the length of a roll of Super-8 film (almost three minutes) until I’m cut off in the middle of a sentence at the end. One year later I shot Ich bin 25 and so on until the present (40). The unfinished series was released under the title ...but I still haven’t found out the meaning of life, in which confused ideas mingle with great knowledge: I flitted over imaginary borders between the tidied up and the disorderly, read the future from the toilet bowl every morning and claimed I told the truth 24 times each day, made desperate attempts to connect mathematics with reality. All that in a single flow of words which often breaks through the sound barrier of my own thoughts. Not permitting anything to stop me from finding the meaning. In 1999 I hoped that a constellation of planets could give me the answer. When the sun darkened on August 11th, I didn’t stop talking into the camera for my film Ich bin 33. And maybe it’s my doing that it reappeared.” – Jan Peters Film Listing - J’Ai 20 Ans (by Helena Villovitch, 1984, 4’05 mins) - Ich Bin 24 (1990, 2’37 mins) - Ich Bin 25 (1991, 2’26 mins) - Ich Bin 26 (1992, 2’24 mins) - Ich Bin 27 (1993, 2’34 mins) - Ich Bin 28 (1994, 2’39 mins) - Ich Bin 29 (1995, 2’39 mins) - Toi Et Moi - Tu As 29 Ans (by David TV, 1995, 3’22 mins) - Ich Bin 30 (1996, 2’38 mins) - Ich Bin 31 (1997, 2’15 mins) - Ich Bin 32 (1998, 2’28 mins) - Ich Bin 33 (1999, 3’17 mins) - Ich Bin 34 (2000, 1’08 mins) - Wie Ich Ein Hoehlenmaler Wurde - In Kurzfassung (2001, 20’20 mins) - Ich Bin 36 (2002, 3’53 mins) - Ich Bin 37 (2003, 6’05 mins) - Ich Bin 38 (2004, 2’36 mins) - Ich Bin 39 (2005, 2’33 mins) - Ich Bin 40 (2006, 2’48 mins) Programme notes: http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film-program/31-january-2012-jan-peters-%E2%80%A6but-i-still-haven%E2%80%99t-figured-out-the-meaning-of-life.html CLOSE-UP 97-99 Sclater Street London E1 6HR United Kingdom www.closeupfilmcentre.com www.vertigomagazine.co.uk