Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Page scan 00039 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1932
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00039
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 33 Combination of film afid stage. " Stiirmflut by Paquet. Direction : Erzcin Piscator. Berliner Volksbiihne. Formule de cinema-theatre : " Stiirmflut " par Paquet. Direction : Erzcin Piscator. Berliner Volksbiihne. Verbindung von Film und Biihne. " Sturmflut " von Paquet. Regie : Erzcin Piscator. Berliner Volksbiihne. Making use of the latest electric lighting innovations, Schlemmer creates an important factor of the element of light, attaining sometimes very interesting results, as for example in the Metaltana, in which is expressed a real synthesis of light and movement, an impression of film projection. The conception of the theatre as on a level with the film, has been effected by an English woman, Miss Loi'e Fuller, in her " light theatre " in which took place a direct optical shaping, analogically as it occurs in the film. Miss Loi'e Fuller did away with static decor in the theatre, replacing it with shifting, " composed " scenes, by projecting coloured electric light, concentrated by reflectors in changing colour and form. The scene is transformed into a world of fantasy. Light dominates everything on the scene, it becomes the sole dominant of the scenic space. The dramatic tension is obtained and intensified only bv means of light effects, which — it seems — was also the aim of the producers of the film " Light Rhythms " (see Close Up). We have here a striking example of how much the tendencies of film and theatre have coincided. c