Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000449
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP the scenario artist S. Ermolinskv are conducting* at high speed the photographs of nature for the picture. The Earth is Athirst, The staging of tliis picture is being effected in collaboration with Meschrabpom-Film. The scenario of the film illustrates the problem of transport in Central Asia. The action takes place in our day. The services of Turkomans have been enlisted as consultants in connection with this work. Another series of private governmental and social exhibitions of the picture Turksib (The Steel Road) has been arranged. The author and director was V. A. Turin. The picture was shown to the Pan-Federal Congress of Soviets, and met there with unanimous approval. On June 15 of the present year, Vostok=Kino sent an expedition to the peninsula of Yamal. The route of the expedition is as follows : Archangel — island of Kolguef — Nova Zembla — Sharapovy Koshkv on the peninsula of Yamal — Lake Yarro-Togor — Obdorsk — Tazovaya Guba — city of Turukhansk — city of Krasnoyarsk. From Archangel to the peninsula of Yam^al, the expedition proceeds on a small trading schooner of the polar type. From Yamal to Obdorsk the journey is across what is in the sum.mer marshland. From Obdorsk to Turukhansk the reindeer transport of winter will be used. Finally, from Turukhansk to Krasnoyarsk, reindeer, dogs and horses will be used. The total length of the journey will be about ten thousand kilom.etres. It is calculated that the expedition will cover a period of seven months. The expedition will take photo 311