Closeup Gallery (2003)

Closeup Gallery completes the trilogy of short films that began with In the Palace 2000 and Birds 2001 The small communities of those earlier films are replaced here by an intimate communion of two the earlier elaborate mise en scene are distilled into the microcosm of a cardcovered table the conceit of hand made magic that travels through the trilogy is here literalized through the card players world of fakery where simple materials transform