Close-Up

Close-up is a unique magic performance on headphones, for one spectator at a time.

Inside a café, surrounded by unsuspecting customers, you are invited to sit at a table and watch a 15-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 performer’s 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? What is really happening, and what is simulated and pre-recorded?

Combining expert sleight-of-hand magic with the dreamlike nature of cinema, Close-up invites you to briefly reimagine everyday life as an uncanny illusion.

‘There’s something deeply satisfying in the chill, philosophical style of Vincent Gambini the magician.’ Exeunt Magazine

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