Events
Festival of Ideas: Close-up
Friday 24 May 9:00 until 15:00
Brighton & Hove : Mac's Cafe
Speaker: Vincent Gambini
Part of the series: Festival of Ideas, Brighton Festival
Close-up is a brief magic performance on headphones, for one spectator at a time.
Inside a working café, surrounded by unsuspecting customers, magician Vincent Gambini invites you to sit at a table and watch a 10-minute performance. In front of your very eyes, playing cards transform inexplicably and sugar cubes vanish without a trace. But as you listen to the magician’s pre-recorded voice and the sounds of the café on headphones, the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly thin: is this a real café, or a film set filled with actors?
Combining expert sleight-of-hand with the dreamlike nature of cinema, Close-up invites you to briefly reimagine everyday life as an uncanny illusion.
Supported by Farnham Maltings and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
£8
‘This thoughtful, playful and multi-layered piece will make you question how we watch and what we see.’
Posted on behalf of: School of Media, Arts and Humanities
Further information: https://brightonfestival.org/whats-on/XKr-festival-of-ideas-close-up/
Last updated: Thursday, 22 February 2024
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