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Apple Pie

A screening of Sam Hamilton's ten-part work Apple Pie.

The UK premiere of Sam Hamilton's Apple Pie screening at CLOSE-UP, London.

If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. —Carl Sagan

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the "mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex." Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art. The centrepiece of the film is a striking sequence involving dancer Ioane Papali’i, whose limbs are tied by long strands of rope to a tree. His struggle, perhaps, is one of trying to deviate from the blueprints of reality, a fundamental aspect of our species’ most constructive faculties, says Hamilton. —Tim Wong, for New Zealand International Film Festival

Apple Pie was co-produced by CIRCUIT.

Screening details

Apple Pie
7.30pm, Tuesday 9 May
CLOSE-UP Cinema,
97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR
£10 standard / £8 concessions / £6 Close-Up members

Transport: Tube: Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street; Aldgate East and Bethnal Green Bus routes: 8 26 35 47 48 55 67 78 149 242 243 388

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