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"Within the history of American experimental film there are few figures as central as Hollis Frampton. Yet it is Frampton's navigation of multiple artistic media and discourses outside the hermetic experimental film universe that marks him as still relevant to twenty-first century aesthetic and cultural debates. Throughout his career, Frampton explored related emerging image arts like early xerography, video, and computers. He was a pioneering digital artist who anticipated collaborative DIY open source programming through his Digital Media Lab. In short, Frampton's importance in American experimental film lies partly in the wide network of connections he represents to other arts, histories, and cultural frameworks. At the center of Frampton's work is his unfinished film, Magellan, which represents a key to understanding his legacy for contemporary art and cinema. Michael Zryd argues that, on one level, the Magellan metaphor is Frampton's way of yoking the modernist project of radical investigation of art and medium to the larger historical and epistemological tradition of Enlightenment thought. On another level, as Frampton begins to critique the modernist project-especially its purism, austerity, and hidden histories of power-he opens up the deeper problems of the Enlightenment tradition, especially the political legacy of capitalism and colonialism, as well as the totalizing logics behind it. While focusing on Magellan, Zryd also considers the full scope of Frampton's works and his exploration of how cinema attempts to capture and understand the world"--
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The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Hollis Frampton (1936–1984) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and theorists of his time, and in his navigation of artistic media and discourses, he anticipated the multimedia boundary blurring of today's visual culture. Indeed, his photography continues to be exhibited, and a digital edition of his films was issued by the Criterion Collection. This book offers the first collection of critical writings on Frampton's work. It complements On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matter, published in the MIT Press's Writing Art series, which collected Frampton's own writings. October was as central to Frampton as he was to it. He was both a frequent contributor—appearing in the first issue in 1976—and a frequent subject of contributions by others. Some of these important and incisive writings on Frampton's work are reprinted here. The essays collected in this volume consider Frampton's photographic practice, which continued even after he turned to film; survey his film work from the 1960s to the late 1970s; and explore Frampton's grounding in poetics and language. Two essays by the late Annette Michelson, one of the twentieth century's most influential writers on experimental film, place Frampton in relation to film and art history.
Photographic criticism --- Motion pictures --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Appreciation --- Frampton, Hollis, --- Appreciation.
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This book is a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of Hollis Frampton's work in its totality, from his earliest films through the unfinished epic Magellan.
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