LUX Event: Hollis Frampton's Magellan Sunday 11th & Sunday 18th November 2007

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LEGENDARY HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM CYCLE TO SCREEN IN LONDON, NOVEMBER 2007
Sunday 11 & Sunday 18 November 2007
National Maritime Museum, Park Row, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF  
www.nmm.ac.uk
Tickets: £5 per day Box Office: 020 8312 8560

A screening, over two consecutive Sundays, of Hollis Frampton’s  
monumental film sequence Magellan, which uses Ferdinand Magellan’s  
circumnavigatory voyage as a metaphor for a meditation on the history  
and language of cinema, and the phenomena of perception.

In composing his metahistory of cinema, Frampton often refers to  
other films and filmic modes, quotes liberally from early cinema  
(specifically the paper print collection of the Library of Congress)  
and explores countless possibilities for montage and the relationship  
between sound and image.

Originally intended as a 36-hour sequence in which individual titles  
would be shown on specific days in a calendar of one year and four  
days, it was left unfinished when Frampton died in 1984. The  
surviving 8 hours of material, comprising of almost 30 individual  
films, will be screened together for the first time in the UK.

Sunday 11 November 2007
12pm - 2pm	
The Birth of Magellan
(with an introduction by Michael Zryd)
3pm - 5pm	
The Straits of Magellan I

Sunday 18 November 2007
12pm - 2pm	
The Straits of Magellan II
3pm - 5pm	
The Death of Magellan











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