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Hollis Frampton Quotes

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

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.

Hollis Frampton
Angel, Devil, Faces

A film is a machine made of images

Hollis Frampton
Machines, Film, Made

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

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

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

Hollis Frampton
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

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

Hollis Frampton
Space, Mind, Cinema
"On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton".

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.

Hollis Frampton
Snow, Style, Environmental

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