Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000327
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 309 Three Days," a Spanish avantgarde film by Xavier Guell . Trois jours," film d" avant-garde espagnol, par Xavier Guell. " Drei Tage." ein spanischer Avantgardefilm von Xavier Guell. is made out on paper, put into an envelope and handed over to the cafe proprietor. Thereupon each goes his own different and undetermined way. A few hours later, great distances separate them. Title. THE DAY FOLLOWING. The OTHER MAN transacts big business in a big office. SHE takes a sunbath on a desert beach. HE sells trinkets in a central street of a great town. Title. YET ANOTHER DAY. The OTHER MAN fishes in a dirty part of the port. SHE shoots pots to pieces with a revolver, in a garden. HE wanders among the dense crowds of the town. Title. MEANWHILE. The town. The country. The factory. The station. The street. . . . Title. THE THIRD DAY. By HIS, HER and the OTHER MAN'S watches it is three o'clock. The town clock marks the hour of three. The three persons arrive at the same time at the table of the cafe. The OTHER MAN takes out of a portefeuille sheets of folded paper containing plans relating to big business undertakings and companies, banks, etc. SHE, disconsolate, and with several unpaid bills. HE, a mechanical toy. . . . But the bet subsists and is still unsettled. Discussions. Nervousness. They call the cafe keeper and tell him to bring the envelope. They examine the paper. Title. THE SIGNATURES WERE FALSE."