BOOK DATA Michael Zryd, Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema. Columbia University Press, 2023. $130.00 cloth; $35.00 paper; $34.99 e-book. 328 pages.
Hollis Frampton is one of the most recognizable names in American avant-garde cinema. Yet, despite the abundance of literature on Frampton’s life and work, there has not been a full-length survey on the filmmaker until Michael Zryd’s Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema. Zryd attends not only to Frampton’s films but also to his theoretical writings, lectures, and personal correspondence. The book, however, is not a linear biography or chronological history of the filmmaker. Zryd is interested above all in the final project that preoccupied Frampton for over a decade before his untimely death at the age of forty-eight. This project was the Magellan series, an ambitious and unfinished epic with a planned running time of thirty-six hours and a goal of serving as a complete...
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