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Marcel
Duchamp, Anemic Cinema
The Rotoreliefs first appeared in the film Anemic Cinema. The discs were
meant to be placed on a record-player according to the following instructions:
"The disc should turn at an approximate speed of 331/ 3 revolutions
per minute, this will give an impression of depth, and the optical illusion
will be more intense with one eye than with two!" M.D |
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Hollis
Frampton (1936-1984)
Nostalgia,
1971
Nostalgia is a key work by a major figure in the history of American
avant-garde filmmaking. The images for the film were made by burning
thirteen of Frampton's favorite photographs on a primitive hotplate.
This destruction of a still image in order to make a moving image clearly
demonstrates Frampton's shift from photography to filmmaking.
Frampton wrote voice-overs for the thirteen photographs, the texts ranging
from the theoretical to the personal and anecdotal, including references
to friends and acquaintances. As one photograph burns, the voice-over
for the next photograph-as yet unseen-is heard, and so each image is
first established through the use of language. The distance and relationship
between language and image is a major concern for Frampton, as is memory.
He evokes his own past in the film, while requiring the viewer to remember
each text until its related image appears. Nostalgia is thus an essay
on human consciousness as revealed in language and image, in desire
and anxiety, in personal and cultural memory.
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