{"id":76610,"date":"2014-09-10T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=76610"},"modified":"2014-09-11T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:04:37","slug":"borderline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/borderline\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Borderline<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VmP1A8IvwB4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though she\u2019s known mainly for her poetry, H.D. was a cineaste, too, in both senses of the word\u2014in the late twenties she formed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pool_Group\" target=\"_blank\">the Pool Group<\/a> with Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (the pen name of Annie Winifred Ellerman). They published a film journal, <em>Close Up<\/em>, to which H.D. frequently contributed, and they made a number of films, only one of which survives in full. It\u2019s 1930\u2019s <em>Borderline<\/em>, starring Paul Robeson opposite H.D. herself, credited here as Helga Doorn. It\u2019s about an interracial, bisexual love affair\u2014not so much a love triangle as a love quadrilateral\u2014and, yes, it\u2019s available in toto on YouTube. As the Criterion Collection says, the film \u201cboldly blends Eisensteinian montage and domestic melodrama.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though she\u2019s known mainly for her poetry, H.D. was a cineaste, too, in both senses of the word\u2014in the late twenties she formed the Pool Group with Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher (the pen name of Annie Winifred Ellerman). 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