Against All Odds: London

Experimental film ambassador (and maker) Karel Doing was invited by us to curate this program as an addendum to the Against All Odds film series he is curating and organizing to screen at Close-Up Film Centre—a 40-seat microcinema in London, UK. This series provides a window for London audiences into some of the work coming out of DIY/independent microcinema and film lab communities around the world. In March, the series was launched with a program of work made by Bay Area-based artists. Against All Odds: London is a program featuring films made by artists associated with the Close Up Film Centre community so that we in the Bay Area can look back through that window and see what-all they are up to across the pond.

Screening: Notes for the Woodshed (2023) by Daniel Owusu, Views from Home (2005) by Guy Sherwin, Hues (2024) by Lynn Loo, Heliotrope & Citron (2025) by Jim Hobbs, Intervals (2023) by Simon Payne, Aerospace Imaging (2020), by Pierre Bouvier Patron, Afterimage (2025) by Susu Laroche, Standing Prayer (2023) by Hugo Max, Citadel (2020) by John Smith, Inflated (Double) Struggle (2018), by Jenny Baines, A Monster with its Mouth Agape (2024) by Steven McInerney

Promotional image from Afterimage by Susu Laroche