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 face.

  Hollis Frampton

  Angel, Devil, Faces

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• A film is a machine made of images

  Hollis Frampton

  Machines, Film, Made

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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.

  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

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• 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

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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.

  Hollis Frampton

  Space, Mind, Cinema

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

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• 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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