Close Up (Jul-Dec 1930)

Page scan 000618 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000618
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 is transitional, some of it (the apple ballet) remains a thingaccomplished. He tells me — this clever Belgian director — that he is working on a new Socialist film. Snapshots of workers WORKING. A new edition of Le Soir. They have published a lot about the Congress but the actual day of showing for each film is not yet fixed. To represent Russia they will screen The Man i^'ith a Movie Camera and Earth, So the day of the Russian film really must be over. The new pictures . . . some of them one has seen in London. Pamir that showed one things, (flaking a film about a mountain when the higher up a mountain one goes the less there is to see.) Pamir, with iis dead black photography, which often did not show one things. {Hot by day and cold by night, said a title which was followed by a shot of man in furs kneeling next to a man in a bathing suit. I mean was it day or night?) Human Arsenal with its Mary Pickford furniture for the governor to sit in, with its puckish hero who spoke to the cuckoo clock. (How could a man who had been ten years in prison keep so well in touch with the political position that his presence was necessary to start the strike ?) France and Germany will have abstracts (Chomette's Cinq Minutes de Cinema PuVy GoreVs Bateaux Parisiens, Richter's Jeux de Chapeaux) and England Borderline. This is interesting for Borderline is suggestion. What can abstract shapes suggest but further shapes till all the world spins round one ? Borderline builds in you. It is not even as simple as the 410