Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 00081 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00081
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 75 with educational purposes, by Mr. Duvillard, and Cinema in reference to labor hygiene, by Mr. Strube. The I.E.C. furthermore publishes the most interesting facts about cinema gathered from all over the world. In last month's number for instance those who are interested in the question may find valuable information on censorship in Russia, Japan and Turkey. Attention may also be called on the rubric Echos and Comments for the variety of subjects treated. A Film Society has been formed at Oxford and four performances have been arranged for the present season. Among the films selected are Potemkin, directed by Eisenstein, Uberfall by Erno Metzner, and Bed and Sofa by Room. Other films by Murnau, Galeen, Germaine Dulac, etc., are included in the programme. The society is allowed only to show films, and not to make them. The president of the societv is Mr. H. C. Greene and it is hoped that the society may extend its activities in course of time. NEWS FROM HOLLAND. Various members of the " avant garde " in Holland have been able to continue their work, having received several new contracts. Upon his return from the trip to Russia, Joris Ivens resumed work on photographing the Zuider Zee, chiefly upon the drainage of a part of this area and the work on the reclaimed ground. The title of his film is Neuer Boden, (New Earth). He is working also at an advertisement film for the Phillips Radio Works in Eindhoven, Holland. It is expected that both these films will be ready in the spring. H. K. Franken is making an advertisement film for the van Houten Cocoa Works at Weesp. He has also plans for other pictures. Willem Bon has finished recently his new film, The Book, for the association of Dutch publishers. Jan Hin has finished a film showing the working of a Sanitorium and is now preparing a film for the association of Women Students at Rotterdam. There being no sound film industry in Holland, the " avant garde has not yet experimented with talkies, apart from Joris Ivens, who has made one or two trials during the working out of the Phillips Radio Film.