{"id":1014,"date":"2007-11-18T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","slug":"the-death-of-magellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2007\/11\/18\/the-death-of-magellan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Magellan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE DEATH OF MAGELLAN<\/b>
\nSunday 18 November 2007, at 3pm
\nLondon National Maritime Museum<\/b><\/p>\n

APPARATUS SUM [STUDIES FOR MAGELLAN: #1]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 3 min
\n<\/b>\u201cA brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a room of cadavers.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n

OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINED FIRES [MEMORANDA MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 14 min
\n<\/b>\u201cFilmed in large part during HF\u2019s lecture-screening tour of the [San Francisco] Bay area: Visits to the Mus\u00e9e M\u00e9chanique, Land\u2019s End, the Cliff House [\u2026] A visit to the Brakhage Colorado residence provided images of chickens \/ roosters.\u201d (Gail Camhi)<\/p>\n

QUATERNION [PARES MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
\n<\/b>A visual dialogue with the artist James Rosenquist: \u201cA safari by Hollis into the categorical domains of artifactual debris.\u201d (Patrick Clancy)<\/p>\n

YELLOW SPRINGS [MAGELLAN: VANISHING POINT #1, PARES MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
\n<\/b>\u201cA portrait of the filmmaker Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n

FOR GEORGIA O\u2019KEEFE [PARES MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
\n<\/b>An exquisite homage to O\u2019Keefe\u2019s \u201cRadiator Building, Night.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE [TEMPORA MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
\n<\/b>HF\u2019s affinity with Duchamp informs this film: If Eisenstein remade Anemic Cinema<\/i> (1926), this film might have been the result.<\/p>\n

NOT THE FIRST TIME [TEMPERA MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min
\n<\/b>\u201cThe 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.\u201d (Fred Camper)<\/p>\n

TIGER BALM [MEMORANDA MAGELANI #1, MENS MAGELANI]
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 16mm, colour, silent, 10 min
\n<\/b>After two years of massive didacticism in black-and-white [Hapax Legomena<\/i>, 1971-72)], I am surprised by Tiger Balm<\/i>, lyrical, in colour, a celebration of generative humours and principles, in homage to the green of England, the light of my dooryard \u2026 and consecutive matters.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n

PROCESSION
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1976, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min
\n<\/b>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
\nA collection of three short films: \u201cA trip to the New York State Fair filtered through a most rarefied formal film.\u201d (Scott MacDonald)<\/p>\n

GLORIA!
\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1979, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min
\n<\/b>The last film of HF\u2019s oeuvre and the last completed for Magellan<\/i>, this film encapsulates the meta-history of cinema, bridging early cinema and video, and distils Magellan<\/i>\u2019s themes: the tension between image and language, Frampton\u2019s \u2018sentimental science\u2019, tradition and memory, and the persistence of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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-1014","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\/1014","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=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}