Nov 2nd 2025

Hollis Frampton: The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I / The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV / The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII / Matrix [First Dream] / Palindrome / Noctiluca (1977 / 1977 / 1980 / 1979 / 1969 / 1974)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, November 2nd, at 7PM

Hollis Frampton: The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I / The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV / The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII / Matrix [First Dream] / Palindrome / Noctiluca (1977 / 1977 / 1980 / 1979 / 1969 / 1974) · 6m / 4m / 35m / 28m / 22m / 3m · 16mm

In the last decade of his life, Frampton devoted almost all of his creative energy and time to a monumental project titled Magellan. Never completed, Magellan set out to create a “metahistory” of film that could also serve as a “model for human consciousness.” Conceived as a “utopian” work, its massive scope engaged with an “infinite cinema,” spanning all that film is and could be. These films are pieces of the incomplete Magellan cycle.

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