Hollis Frampton and Morgan Fisher

Fri 29.11.
16:30

Cinema

Arsenal 1

(nostalghia)

(nostalghia) shows a series of photographs taken by Frampton himself which burn one after the other on a hot plate, the camera documenting how they transform into smoke and ashes. A dryly ironic voiceover describes the content of the images, when they were taken and what memories are connected with them. An autobiographical film that plays with the friction between sound and image.

The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film

The long film title attempts to describe the film, even though it leaves out one important element of the context: “The first shot is in sync with the actors’ lips, the rest is spoken in voiceover and comprises the comments made by the two people watching the film. Nothing earth-shattering is said: most of it is recognition and memory – the tone they speak in is important; the individual words aren’t” (Morgan Fisher)