Close-Up Productions

02/22/2023

An 80-year-old tortoise and her babies 🥰

07/23/2022

In a recent interview, as part of the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs poject, Jack Johnson, chair of the Miami Design Preservation League's board, talks about a recent historic preservation success on Miami Beach and praises the role of the developer, which was key to the preservation effort.

07/07/2021

For the past few months, we have been busy creating webinars about the history of minority groups on Miami Beach - Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, and LGBTQ. We were asked to do this project because of our creation of the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs archive, which now contains over 140 interviews with people associated with Miami Beach. The article below explains how this project came about. The group that initiated the project may surprise you. It's on page 34 of the magazine.

This issue of MB salutes the many local heroes who answered the call to serve during the pandemic. So many of them made personal sacrifices to get us through this difficult time. We proudly bring you their stories — from the firefighters and other city employees who dispense life-saving vaccines, ...

09/09/2020

We just posted a profile on Morris Lapidus, designer of the major Beach resort hotels of the 1950s. The video is the latest work for this on-going ten year project for the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority.

Lapidus was a highly controversial architect primarily known for his Neo-baroque "Miami Modern" hotels constructed in the 1950s and 60s. His resort-hotel style has become synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach.
Lapidus designed over 1,000 buildings during a career spanning more than 50 years, much of it spent as an outsider to the American architectural establishment.
This look at the resort-hotel concept developed by Lapidus uses excerpts from several interviews that were created for the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project — an archive of video oral histories with people involved with the Beach’s change and development. The 135 full interviews are available through FIU’s Digital Library and its our website, www.miamibeachvisualmemoirs.com. The archive was created under a grant from the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority and is a partnership between the Miami Design Preservation League and Close-Up Productions.

01/14/2020

Ten years ago this week I was in Haiti covering the earthquake for Austrian television and the Red Cross. Recovery has not been slow -- its been non-existent.

In the first days following the earthquake in Haiti there was ruin and desperation everywhere. Survival and death were side by side on the streets, broken bodies…

01/08/2020

We're starting 2020 with a new point of view. Realizing that "getting the shot" doesn't always happen from the same perspective, we have added drone videography -- fully FAA licensed and registered -- as part of our standard coverage capacity.

07/02/2019

On the weather bureau's flight line with the hurricane chasers of NOAA in central Florida this past week producing a documentary at the start of this year's hurricane season.