Investigations in the close-up and its meaning regarding nearness, abstraction and transparency. Face, facelike and animism are also major key-words in thsi article... . I have always been fascinated with the close-up, not as an end, but a filter of opportunities to open up for and nearness of transcendence, associations and memories. The close-up is not the end, it rather in my view to be regarded as a beginning of different perceptions...