Straits of Magellan: ""Drafts and Fragments""

Overview

A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: ""DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS"" are all silent and unedited. Several invoke, directly, the work of the Lumieres, as in Frampton's reworking of DEMOLITION D'UN MUR (1895) in which a dilapidated farm silo is demolished in place of the Lumieres' wall. He makes reference to his own work and plays homage to the work of contemporaries. A complex range of formal issues are raised in other fragments. Finally, Frampton offers a number of analogues for the act of filming and cinematic seeing that includes a series of appropriated 'lenses' ( a stone portal, a wooden silo) and a set of 'screens' a pool of water, curtains, a dusty window).

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 13, 1974

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

Hollis Frampton

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt7487914