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March 15, 2010

hollis frampton on the (inevitable) intrusion of language in the cinema

Filed under: film — ABRAXAS @ 3:19 am

Every artistic dialogue that concludes in a decision to ostracize the word is disingenuous to the degree that it succeeds in concealing from itself its fear of the word…and the source of that fear: that language, in every culture, and before it may become an arena of discourse, is, above all, an expanding arena of power, claiming for itself and its wielders all that it can seize, and relinquishing nothing.

One Response to “hollis frampton on the (inevitable) intrusion of language in the cinema”

  1. whoever Says:

    babe-l-on…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5-JaNpXfRg

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