Oswell Blakeston
Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907 - 1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory. He was also a poet, and wrote in non-fiction areas including travel, cooking and pets. He started work in films at Gaumont Studios, as a colleague of David Lean. He then edited Close Up magazine from 1927 to 1933, founded by Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson, with H. D and Robert Herring as contributors. In 1930 he made with Francis Bruguière the short abstract film Light Rhythms, which is extant.
He then edited the little magazine Seed with Herbert Jones, and wrote detective fiction with Roger Burford, under a pseudonym Simon. From 1929 he was also publishing under the Blakeston name novels and stories, producing about 15 books of fiction, as well as ten collections of poetry. He was a contributor to John Gawsworth's anthologies, and a collaborator of M. P. Shiel.
Reference - Close up, 1927-1933: cinema and modernism (1998) edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus
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