I love close-up magic -- theatrical stuff is fun but you are talking more about mechanicals rather than skill. The efforts of some designer making a machine that creates the illusion rather than the dexterity and skill of someone who operates with a few simple props and their hands.
Theatrical stuff is also only viewed from one angle. Floating people, the saw-in-half person, box jumpers, the knife box -- all the major tricks would be revealed if you could shift your point of view 90 degrees to one side.
Ricky Jay is one of my favorite performers -- he stared in The Prestige (2006) as well as a bunch of episodes of Deadwood and the X-Files.
Here is one three-minute clip of him manipulating a deck of cards.
No soundtrack, no patter, just him, a deck of cards and a table.
A different style of performer is Sam Malone. He likes to give the audience the illusion that they are controlling the cards from time to time. If you know the trick, you will know that this is just... an Illusion...