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A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
Description
An icon of the American avant-garde, Hollis Frampton made rigorous, audacious, brainy, and downright thrilling films, leaving behind a body of work that remains unparalleled. In the 1960s, having already been a poet and a photographer, Frampton became fascinated with the possibilities of 16 mm filmmaking. In such radically playful and visually and sonically arresting works as Surface Tension, Zorns Lemma, (nostalgia), Critical Mass, and the enormous, unfinished Magellan cycle (cut short by his death at age forty-eight), Frampton repurposes cinema itself, making it into something by turns literary, mathematical, sculptural, and simply beautifuland always captivating. This collection of works by the essential artistthe first release of its kindincludes twenty-four films, dating from 1966 to 1979.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restorations of all twenty-four films, with uncompressed monaural audio on the sound films on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works
- Excerpted interview with Frampton from 1978
- A Lecture, a performance piece by Frampton, recorded
in 1968 with the voice of artist Michael Snow
- Gallery of works from Framptons xerographic series By Any Other Name
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an introduction by film critic Ed Halter; essays and capsules on the films by Frampton scholars Bruce Jenkins, Ken Eisenstein, and Michael Zryd; and a piece by film preservationist Bill Brand
Collection Includes
EARLY FILMS
- Manual of Arms (1966 17 minutes, 10 seconds Black & White Silent)
- Process Red (1966 3 minutes, 37 seconds Color Silent)
- Maxwells Demon (1968 3 minutes, 44 seconds Color Mono)
- Surface Tension (1968 9 minutes, 30 seconds Color Mono)
- Carrots & Peas (1969 5 minutes, 21 seconds Color Mono)
- Lemon (1969 7 minutes, 17 seconds Color Silent)
- Zorns Lemma (1970 59 minutes, 51 seconds Color Mono)
FILMS FROM HAPAX LEGOMENA
- (nostalgia) (1971 36 minutes, 7 seconds Black & White Mono)
- Poetic Justice (1972 31 minutes, 28 seconds Black & White Silent)
- Critical Mass (1971 25 minutes, 11 seconds Black & White Mono)
FILMS FROM MAGELLAN
- The Birth of Magellan
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (19771980 5 minutes, 41 seconds Color Mono)
- Straits of Magellan
Pans 04 and 697700 (196974 1-minute each Color Silent)
INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Part I (1975 4 minutes, 48 seconds Color Silent)
Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate 1, 0 (1976 5 minutes, 10 seconds Color Silent)
Winter Solstice (1974 32 minutes, 36 seconds Color Silent)
- The Death of Magellan
Gloria! (1979 9 minutes, 36 seconds Color Mono)
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