The Death of Magellan

Date: 18 November 2007 | Season: Hollis Frampton Magellan | Tags: ,

Frampton-Gloria

THE DEATH OF MAGELLAN
Sunday 18 November 2007, at 3pm
London National Maritime Museum

APPARATUS SUM [STUDIES FOR MAGELLAN: #1]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 3 min
“A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a room of cadavers.” (HF)

OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINED FIRES [MEMORANDA MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 14 min
“Filmed in large part during HF’s lecture-screening tour of the [San Francisco] Bay area: Visits to the Musée Méchanique, Land’s End, the Cliff House […] A visit to the Brakhage Colorado residence provided images of chickens / roosters.” (Gail Camhi)

QUATERNION [PARES MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
A visual dialogue with the artist James Rosenquist: “A safari by Hollis into the categorical domains of artifactual debris.” (Patrick Clancy)

YELLOW SPRINGS [MAGELLAN: VANISHING POINT #1, PARES MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
“A portrait of the filmmaker Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” (HF)

FOR GEORGIA O’KEEFE [PARES MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
An exquisite homage to O’Keefe’s “Radiator Building, Night.”

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE [TEMPORA MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
HF’s affinity with Duchamp informs this film: If Eisenstein remade Anemic Cinema (1926), this film might have been the result.

NOT THE FIRST TIME [TEMPERA MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
“The viewer is engaged in a process of double vision that returns him to the image and subject in a manner more complex, more self-aware, and more temporal than the way most of us view photographs.” (Fred Camper)

TIGER BALM [MEMORANDA MAGELANI #1, MENS MAGELANI]
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 10 min
After two years of massive didacticism in black-and-white [Hapax Legomena, 1971-72)], I am surprised by Tiger Balm, lyrical, in colour, a celebration of generative humours and principles, in homage to the green of England, the light of my dooryard … and consecutive matters.” (HF)

PROCESSION
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
inc. BANNER, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 40 sec / DRUM, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 20 sec / TUBA, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 3 min
A collection of three short films: “A trip to the New York State Fair filtered through a most rarefied formal film.” (Scott MacDonald)

GLORIA!
Hollis Frampton, USA, 1979, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min
The last film of HF’s oeuvre and the last completed for Magellan, this film encapsulates the meta-history of cinema, bridging early cinema and video, and distils Magellan’s themes: the tension between image and language, Frampton’s ‘sentimental science’, tradition and memory, and the persistence of death.