The Cinema and Photography program introduces the public to the city and architecture through modern visual arts: cinema, documentary, photography, video.
Fritz Lang, Éric Rohmer, Amos Gitai : a strong proximity has always related the filmmaker and the architect. From thrillers to science fiction and realistic films, cinema gives universal access to the city, real or dreamed, past, present or future.
The Cinema program offers documentary and feature film cycles associated with the Cité's major exhibitions, and themed screening cycles: city, housing, landscape... Each session is composed of a screening and then a debate with invited personalities.
Photography has become an essential medium, both on the art scene and in social networks, and bears witness to the world we live in. By the diversity of the glances that it offers on the built space, it questions it and approaches it in all its singularities.
The Photography program invites photographers to present their work on architecture and the urban, in dialogue with critics, experts, architects, who confront their points of view. The program also presents moving images - video, multimedia works.
Coming events
Festival Close-Up 2025 – Soirée d’ouverture
La Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine ouvre grand ses portes pour célébrer le lancement de la 5ᵉ édition du Festival Close-Up, devenu en quelques années un rendez-vous incontournable entre cinéma, ville, architecture et paysage.
Habiter le paysage
Rencontres avec Mathilde Morières, réalisatrice, Christine Doublet, productrice, Anna Chavepayre, architecte du collectif Encore et Anastasia de Villepin de la revue "Architecture d'Aujourd'hui".
Carte Blanche à Grain Urbain : Mind maps
Après une première édition en mars 2025, le festival international de cinéma expérimental GRAIN URBAIN a répondu à l’invitation de Close- Up pour une carte blanche réunissant 6 films en dialogue sur la psycho- cartographie des lieux que nous habitons, des lieux qui nous habitent.
Aucun événement passé dans ce cycle
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  