Film in the House of the Word - Notes - e-flux
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Hollis Frampton on cinema's fear of the word, and on the dream that fear conceals
This week, Film Notes shares Hollis Frampton’s 1981 essay, in which he traces “logophobia”—a recurrent distrust of language—across cinema and the visual arts, but recovers behind that distrust a more ambitious dream: film as a machine capable of confronting language on equal terms. At a moment when generative AI is altering the role of language in the production and interpretation of images, Frampton’s vision of film and language in “perpetual and dialectical motion,” each exposing the limits of the other, resonates anew.1 In 1928, Sergei Eisenstein published a brief manifesto on film sound…
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