{"id":995,"date":"2007-11-11T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=995"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:54:49","slug":"the-birth-of-magellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2007\/11\/11\/the-birth-of-magellan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Magellan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN<br \/>\nSunday 11 November 2007, at 12pm<br \/>\nLondon National Maritime Museum<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>CADENZA I AND XIV<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Hollis Frampton, USA, 1977-80, 16mm, colour, sound, 11 min<br \/>\n<\/b>A prelude to <i>Magellan<\/i>\u2019s universe, rife with allusions to Creation and Duchampian sexual puns: \u201cThe film about the bride in which two gentlemen, who we may presume to be bachelors, strip more or less bare a putative bride of some sort.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n<p><b>MINDFALL I<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1977-80, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min<br \/>\n<\/b>Emerges out of HF\u2019s experiments with sound and Eisenstein\u2019s \u2018vertical montage\u2019: \u201cIf you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. All the neurons fire at once.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n<p><b>MATRIX [FIRST DREAM]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1977-79, 16mm, colour, silent, 28 min<br \/>\n<\/b>A film of multiple superimpositions, utilizing the images of <i>SOLARIUMAGELANI<\/i> (a film shown later in the cycle) and the hexagonal images that recur throughout <i>Magellan<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>PALINDROME [SECOND DREAM]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1969, 16mm, colour, silent, 22 min<br \/>\n<\/b>An early film of HF\u2019s which was later incorporated into <i>Magellan<\/i>: \u201cThe menacing Latin palindrome IN GIRVM IMVS NOCTE ET CONSVMIMVR IGNI (By night we go (down) into a gyre \/ and we are burned in fire) serves as an epigraph to this animated film.\u201d (HF)<\/p>\n<p><b>MINDFALL VII<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1977-80, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min<br \/>\n<\/b><i>See above<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>NOCTILUCA [MAGELLAN\u2019S TOYS #1]<br \/>\nHollis Frampton, USA, 1974, 16mm, colour, silent, 4 min<br \/>\n<\/b>\u201cDesigned to be shown on the second day of the <i>Magellan<\/i> cycle. The title (nox \/ luceo) means something that shines at night, i.e. the moon [&#8230;] The second day of the cycle seems to be an inventory of the knowledge, machines, and arms that Magellan \u2013 and latter-day voyagers like HF \u2013 had at the outset of his journey.\u201d (Brian Henderson)<\/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-995","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\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}