Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000392
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early 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:
November 07, 2023
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368 CLOSE UP 11. — The Biennial Committee will only accept responsibility for the exceptional wear and tear of the film material. In case of destruction or damage of parts or all of the film, the Biennial will pay the cost of that part of the positive developed copy which has been destroyed or exceptionally worn or ruined. 12. — If, at the close of the Exhibition, the films are to be sent to a destination different from that of the origin, the producer loses all right of free transport, and all expenses for packing, transport and fire insurance will be endured by the producer. The change of destination must be notified to the Secretary's office not later than the closing date of the Exhibition. Order of Projection — Other Manifestations. 13. — The order of projection of the films is decided by the Presidency, and this decision is final. 14. — The Presidency wiU organise side by side with the projection of the films, other manifestations, such as lectures, debates, etc., on the artistic and social tendencies of the pictures and the cinema in general, gathering producers, technicians and regisseurs to discuss the artistic possibilities of cinematography in the life of to-day. Prizes. 15. — The Exhibition will award Medals, Diplomas and other prizes to those works of outstanding merit and success which meet with the approval of the public and of the critics. The awarding of these prizes is not intended to signify a definition of the greater or lesser value of competing subjects, neither will these prizes define a scale of importance of the films shown to the public. The prizes will be awarded with regard to any outstanding feature of a certain production, or to its success in artistic cinematographic experiments, or to a new impulse given by a producer, regisseur, or actor in a certain production. Sundry Regulations. 16. — Representatives of producing firms will be entitled to a permanent ticket allowing free entrance to the projections shown by the Exhibition. 17. — All communications must be addressed to the Secretary's office of the " Biennale " (Palazzo Ducale) Venice. THE PRESIDENT OF THE BIENNIAL GIUSEPPE VOLPI DI MISURATA GENERAL COMMITTEE H. E. Don Gabriel Alomar, Spanish Ambassador to H. M. the King of Italy, J. W. Brown (Great Britain), Luciano de Feo (Italy), Charles Delac (France), Will. Hays (United States of America), Nikolaus Kozma (Hungary), H. E. Hajime Matsushima, Ambassador of H. M. the Emperor of fapan to H. M. the King of Italy, Richard Ordynski (Poland), Walther Plugge (Germany), H. E. Vladimiro Potemkine, U. S. S. R. Ambassador to H. M. the King of Italy, D. Van Staveren (Holland), G. A. Witt (Austria). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Luciano de Feo, President, Nicola de Pirro, Giovanni Dettori, Eugenio Giovannetti, Antonio Maraini, Giorgio Michetti, Giacomo Paolucci de' Calboli Barone Gino Pierantoni, Filippo Sacchi, Attilio Fontana (Secretary) .