H.D.

Cinema, psychoanalysis, and literature dominated the intellectual life of Fido (Bryher), Rover (Macpherson), Cat (H. D.), and Pup (Perdita), as they called one another. Cinema was the special focus of their joint work.

They started the film journal Close Up, widely known as the first journal to take cinema seriously as an art form. During its publication from 1927 to 1933, H. D., Bryher, Macpherson, Richardson, and many others reviewed films from all over the world, including especially Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.

Sergei Eisenstein's theory of montage as a dialectic first appeared in English in Close Up (1930) and may well have influenced H. D.'s own dialectical vision and narrative technique.

In addition, Macpherson directed three films for which H. D. acted and participated in the editing: Wing Beat (1927), Foothills (1928), and Borderline (1930). Testifying to the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on H. D., Borderline is a full-length feature film about interracial sex and violence.

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