Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000408
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
As an active film magazine, CLOSE UP lasted only a short time, from 1927 to 1933. Yet the legacy of this English-language periodical, which was published in Switzerland, continues to matter. Edited by Bryher and her husband Kenneth Macpherson, CLOSE UP became THE magazine for energetic debates about the nature of cinema and manifestos imagining new forms of filmmaking and spectatorship. The magazine published articles by filmmakers, such as Sergei Eisenstein, and female literary modernists, such as H.D. and Gertrude Stein. As film scholar Anne Friedberg explains in the anthology CLOSE-UP, 1927-1933: CINEMA & MODERNISM, 'CLOSE UP became the model for a certain type of writing about film -- writing that was theoretically astute, politically incisive, critical of films that were simply 'entertainment.' For six and a half years, CLOSE UP maintained a forum for a broad variety of ideas about the cinema; it never advocated a single direction of development, but rather posed alternatives to existing modes of production, consumption, and film style.' Like Friedberg's own writing, CLOSE UP continues to be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film and media theory. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
July 25, 2024
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CLOSE UP Tourne-t-on des films a Geneve? Eh, oui ! Ton en tourne par ci par la. M. Porchet, dii Laboratoire des films scolaires, est tres occupe a confectionner das bandes a portee educative. Disposant d'une installation tres complete, il est a meme de mettre a profit toute Texperience acquise, jadis, alors qu-aux Etats-Unis il travaillait aux premieres realisations du cinema. A part cela, une Cooperative de production cinematographique a ete cree Tan dernier, mais jusqu'ici aucun film n'a ete presente au public. Un amateur, M. Roessgen, vient de terminer un essai intitule : L'Obsession qui, par sa conception originale et ses prises de vue varices, offre deja un interet certain. En collaboration avec M. Aymar, de la Revue Suisse du Cinema, M. Roessgen a egalement realise un film : Le monde des automates " qui est une patiente photographic des petits bonshommes animes dont nos aieux se sont fort egayes. Quelques films ont ete tournes, ces dernieres annees, dans les Alpes; seuls sont a retenir ceux qui ne comportaient aucun scenario et ne reposaient que sur la valeur spectaculaire des paysages enregistres, car les " romans " essayes furent tous d'une lamentable pauvrete d'idee et d'execution. Mais la cause du film compte a Geneve de fervents partisans, et c'est la, en somme, que nous trouvons matiere a nous rejouir. Une association de cinephiles s'est fondee Tan dernier, qui a pris nom " Cine-Club et a deja fait projeter cet hiver un certain nombre de bandes nouvelles de Cavalcanti et Germaine Dulac, agrementees d'un expose personnel de leurs auteurs. Malheureusement, le nombre encore restreint des membres de Cine-Club impose une contribution financiere trop forte pour permettre au public de moyenne condition de 54