Showing posts with label A Critical Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Critical Cinema. Show all posts
9.3.12

Hollis Frampton's Odyssey

We're a little over a month away from the forthcoming Hollis Frampton Odyssey DVD/Blu-ray release via The Criterion Collection , and there are few better introductions to the man and his work than his interview with Scott MacDonald, included in A Critical Cinema.  As I've mentioned several times before, MacDonald's A Critical Cinema series is an extremely accessible, insightful and essential read; a fantastic investment for those looking to get a firsthand view of the diverse scope of, as MacDonald terms it, the critical cinema...

(As with the Brakhage DVD/Blu-ray in the coming weeks I'll be posting more articles and ephemera on the works that will be included in the release)

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(Ordinary Matter by Hollis Frampton)
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(Zorns Lemma by Hollis Frampton)
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(Critical Mass by Hollis Frampton)
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(Traveling Matte by Hollis Frampton)

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(all stills via Anthology Film Archives)
12.1.12

R.I.P. Robert Nelson


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The following interview is from Scott MacDonald's absolutely essential A Critical Cinema series.  If you have not yet done yourself the favor of exploring these works, please do so immediately; they offer a voice to many filmmakers who've often been and since remained criminally underheard.  Reprinted with permisson...





















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(From Plastic Haircut by Robert Nelson)



(From Bleu Shut by Robert Nelson)

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The following is from the No. 48 issue of Film Culture...