The Straits of Magellan I

Date: 11 November 2007 | Season: Hollis Frampton Magellan | Tags: ,

THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN I
Sunday 11 November 2007, at 3pm
London National Maritime Museum

PUBLIC DOMAIN
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, b/w, silent, 14 min
A found-film composed of early films, arranged alphabetically according to copyright title, all readily retrievable / quotable fragments from our finite federal version of the “infinite film / the paper print collection at the Library of Congress.” (Bruce Jenkins)

STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS [PANOPTICONS]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 51 min (20 min excerpt)
Directly inspired by the Lumière brother’s actualities, these one-minute films (49 of which are collected in Drafts and Fragments), are arranged around the circumference of the Magellan Calendar. Named Panopticons, they allude to Jeremy Bentham’s famous plan for a prison, and point to the dark ironies of Magellan’s Enlightenment project.

INGEIMM VIBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT [VERNAL EQUINOX]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 62 min (5 min excerpt)
Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s nude motion studies, this film was intended to be shown in 13 parts distributed equally through the calendar year.

SUMMER SOLSTICE [SOLARIUMAGELANI 2]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 32 min
“The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice – I hope irreparably – from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits of cows, a dairy film document or what have you, are finally of a whole lot less concern to me than the following things: how it looks, the sense that probably it was done deliberately, the pleasure or displeasure – the intrigue possibly – of attempting to retrieve the manner in which it was done while one is watching.” (HF)

STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS [PANOPTICONS]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 51 min (20 min excerpt)
See above

PAS DE TROIS
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
An analysis of film’s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema’s flicker and other aggressive qualities of the cinematic apparatus.

INGEIMM VIBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT [VERNAL EQUINOX]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 62 min (5 min excerpt)
See above