Hollis Frampton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A film is a machine made of images
-- Hollis Frampton

#Machines #Film #Made
When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.
-- Hollis Frampton

#Two #Mind
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 #Cinema
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
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
To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.
-- Hollis Frampton

#Space #Mind #Cinema
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

To fight, we must have oil for our machine.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.
In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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