I didn't know about this:
"A ground-breaking film for its treatment of race and sexuality,
Borderline(1930) was directed by Kenneth
Macpherson, editor of the influential intellectual film journal *Close
Up*(1927-33), the first British journal dedicated to film as a
modernist art form. Macpherson had previously made three short films, but
this was his first feature and by far his most ambitious effort.
Borderline stars the poet H.D. (real name Hilda Doolittle) and Macpherson's
wife, writer Winifred Bryher, both on the editorial board of *Close Up*, as
well as the black American actor, singer and political activist Paul
Robesonand his wife, Eslanda
Robeson. The narrative is relatively simple, depicting an inter-racial love
triangle, but Borderline's attempts to portray the extreme psychological
states of its characters render it a quite complex film."
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/443504/
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