Hollis Frampton quotes
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“When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.”
-- Hollis FramptonSource : Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.48, MIT Press
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.”
-- Hollis FramptonSource : Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press
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“To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.”
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“To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.”
-- Hollis FramptonSource : "On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton".
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“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.
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“I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.”
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“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”
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“Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.”
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“I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.”
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“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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