Hollis Frampton Quotes

• Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

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  Snow   Style   Environmental  

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• A film is a machine made of images

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  Machines   Film   Made  

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• When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

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  Two   Mind   Two Minds  

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.48, MIT Press

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• To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

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  Space   Mind   Cinema  

  "On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton".

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• If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

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  Fire   Nerves   Neurons  

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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• A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

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  Angel   Devil   Faces  

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