{"id":1004,"date":"2007-11-11T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","slug":"the-straits-of-magellan-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/the-straits-of-magellan-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Straits of Magellan I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b><b>THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN I<\/b><br \/>\nSunday 11 November 2007, at 3pm<br \/>\nLondon National Maritime Museum<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>PUBLIC DOMAIN<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, b\/w, silent, 14 min<br \/>\n<\/b>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 \u201cinfinite film \/ the paper print collection at the Library of Congress.\u201d (Bruce Jenkins)<\/p>\n<p><b>STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS [PANOPTICONS]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 51 min (20 min excerpt)<br \/>\n<\/b>Directly inspired by the Lumi\u00e8re brother\u2019s actualities, these one-minute films (49 of which are collected in<i> Drafts and Fragments<\/i>), are arranged around the circumference of the Magellan Calendar. Named <i>Panopticons<\/i>, they allude to Jeremy Bentham\u2019s famous plan for a prison, and point to the dark ironies of <i>Magellan<\/i>\u2019s Enlightenment project.<\/p>\n<p><b>INGEIMM VIBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT [VERNAL EQUINOX]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 62 min (5 min excerpt)<br \/>\n<\/b>Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge\u2019s nude motion studies, this film was intended to be shown in 13 parts distributed equally through the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p><b>SUMMER SOLSTICE [SOLARIUMAGELANI 2]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 32 min<br \/>\n<\/b>\u201cThe operations that dislocate a film like <i>Summer Solstice<\/i> \u2013 I hope irreparably \u2013 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 \u2013 the intrigue possibly \u2013 of attempting to retrieve the manner in which it was done while one is watching.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n<p><b>STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS [PANOPTICONS]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 51 min (20 min excerpt)<br \/>\n<\/b><i>See above<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>PAS DE TROIS<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min<br \/>\n<\/b>An analysis of film\u2019s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema\u2019s flicker and other aggressive qualities of the cinematic apparatus.<\/p>\n<p><b>INGEIMM VIBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT [VERNAL EQUINOX]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1975, 16mm, colour, silent, 62 min (5 min excerpt)<br \/>\n<\/b><i>See above<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frampton\u2019s 7-part series explores the relationship between filmmaker and viewer, and the possibilities of the medium itself. New prints from recent preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollis-frampton-magellan","tag-hollis-frampton","tag-magellan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}