DVD

A Hollis Frampton odyssey.

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

DVD ed.

Languages

English dialogue and silent films.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (266 min.) : sd. si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Contains 24 films by acclaimed filmmaker Hollis Frampton produced between 1966 and 1979.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as motion pictures from 1966 to 1979.

Special features: audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works ; excerpted interview with Frampton from 1978 ; A lecture, a performance piece by Frampton, recorded in 1968 with the voice of artist Michael Snow ; gallery of works from Frampton's xerographic series By any other name.

Contents

  • Disc 1. Early films: Manual of arms (silent, 17 min. 10 sec. ; 1966) ; Process red (silent, 3 min. 37 sec. ; 1966) ; Maxwell's demon (mono, 3 min. 44 sec. ; 1968) ; Surface tension (mono, 9 min. 30 sec. ; 1968) ; Carrots & peas ( mono, 5 min. 21 sec. ; 1969) ; Lemon (silent, 7 min. 17 sec. ; 1970) ; Zorns Lemma (mono, 59 min. 51 sec. ; 1970)
  • Disc 2. Films from Hapax legomena: Nostalgia (mono, 36 min. 7 sec. ; 1971) ; Poetic justice (silent, 31 min. 28 sec ; 1972) ; Critical mass (mono, 25 min. 11 sec. ; 1971) ; Films from Magellan: Birth of Magellan cadenza I (mono, 5 min. 41 sec. ; 1977-80) ; Straits of Magellan: Pans 0-4 and 697-700 (silent, 1 min. each ; 1969-1974) ; Igenivm nobis ipsa pvella fecit, part 1 (silent, 4 min. 48 sec. ; 1976) ; Magellan, at the gates of death, part 1. The red gate 1.0 (silent, 5 minl 10 sec. ; 1976) ; Winer solstice ( silent, 32 min. 36 sec. ; 1979) ; Death of Magellan: Gloria! (mono, 9 min. 36 sec. 1979)