This Month's Filmmakers' Choice

Berlin Filmmaker Bärbel Freund will be presenting ZORNS LEMMA by Hollis Frampton on March 18. "Hollis Frampton's (1936–1984) films are reified processes of emotional realization, which – often using mathematical sequencing models – prompt the most complicated thoughts about the relationship between words and images and about the ties between perception and language in a playful manner. ZORNS LEMMA (USA 1970) exemplifies the transition from alphabet-based thinking to cinematic thinking, in the sense that an alphabet made up of 24 images gradually replaces the old series of letters, with each image-letter holding for one second, which at today’s projection speed means that it repeats itself 24 times. The film is what Frampton says about Hokusai's "Hundred Views" - a 'magnificent inventory of the mind's ways of knowing through the eye." (Frieda Grafe) From: Geraffte Zeit.