Artificial Light (x20)

''ARTIFICIAL LIGHT repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally. The individual portrait-shots follow each other with almost academic smoothness in lap-dissolves ending in two shots of the entire group followed by a dolly shot into a picture of the moon... There is a chasm between the phrase and its formal inflections. That chasm is intellectual as well as formal. Frampton loves an outrageous hypothesis; his films, all of them, take the shape of logical formulae. Usually the logic he invokes is that of the paradox... In a recent lecture at the Millennium in New York, Frampton hypothesized an atemporal alternative to the history of cinema, illustrated by a sequence of his works. With ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, which was not completed in time for that lecture, he challenges the newest historical phase of the formal cinema, the Structural film.'' -- P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture Reader

http://hollisframpton.org.uk

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• hollis
• frampton
• artificial
• light

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Stimulus is received to change of the image.　Thank you!　ありがとう！　From Tokyo Japan

[willberain]

great! i liekt his conception of multiscreen. looks like one moving organism