Marc Isaacs - Up Close
Since his first film in 2001, Marc Isaacs has perfected the art of getting up close and personal. Close enough to gain the trust of those he is filming, but still with enough distance to ask difficult and sometimes deeply personal questions. The natural barrier of a camera, pressed to his face, empowers his subjects to speak their minds.
'Marc Isaacs - Up Close' brings together Marc's incredible body of work online for the first time.
"Isaacs has an astounding gift for getting people to open up to him and he uses film the way a very skilled artist uses paint. The result is beautiful, heartbreaking and profoundly humane." - The Times
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Movie + 5 extrasThe Filmmaker's House
Movie + 5 extras
When the Filmmaker (Marc Isaacs) is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He begins shooting a film in his home, with people connected to his own life becoming its stars: the two English builders, who Isaacs has empl...
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8 itemsOutside the Court / The Road
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Outside The Court and The Road: A Story of Life and Death are two quite different films. In Outside The Court, I stand in one place and rely mainly on serendipity to determine the shape of the film, whilst in The Road, I actively seek out protagonists and mould their stories in the hope that the...
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Philip and His Seven Wives / Someday My Prince Will Come
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"These films are two of the very few I've made that feature single individuals as the main 'protagonists'. Someday My Prince Will Come is set in an isolated former coal mining village in Cumbria and Philip and His Seven Wives in a suburban house in West Sussex.
I spent over 18 months immersed i...
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Lift / Calais: The Last Border / Travellers
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“Lift, Travellers and Calais - The Last Border were my first three films and they were made between 2001 and 2003. Each film is set in a particular transient space. The individual settings are key to the human stories that unfold because they allow the time and space for reflection on what it mea...
