The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Hollis Frampton (1936–1984) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and theorists of his time, and in his navigation of artistic media and discourses, he anticipated the multimedia boundary blurring of today’s visual culture. Indeed, his photography continues to be exhibited, and a digital edition of his films was issued by the Criterion Collection. This book offers the first collection of critical writings on Frampton’s work.
"(...) En general, la idea de utilizar una cámara para reproducir nuestra manera de ver el mundo - que es el modo de uso regular de una cámara- es una pérdida de tiempo. ¿Por qué no usamos la cámara para mostrar cosas que no podemos ver? O usarla para mostrar cosas de una manera que no podemos imaginar?."
“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).
Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.
El 4 de noviembre de 2001 tuvo lugar la primera sesión de Xcèntric, un programa regular de proyecciones dedicado al cine experimental y de artistas inédito en la ciudad de Barcelona. Justo 20 años después, celebramos el aniversario de Xcèntric con un conjunto de proyecciones, performances y charlas que conforman un homenaje al cine como experiencia colectiva, a la supervivencia del film fotoquímico y al oficio del proyeccionista, además de una necesaria reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del cine en la era digital.
