[Frameworks] (nostalgia) versions...

[John Muse]

And as a bonus, here's my transcript of Frampton's remarks on (nostalgia) that are included in the Criterion Collection DVD.  According the the Acknowledgements, they were recorded at Antioch College in 1971 and were provided courtesy of Bill Brand:

> I got (nostalgia) in a blinding flash, more or less.  I wanted to make an autobiographical film in English which had intelligible sentences, and even if possible was witty or something like that.
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> And there was some difficulty about it, of course, because I had no access to the opinion of my subject, who disappeared somehow and was ingested by myself quite a few years ago.  I had to play the archeologist’s game; I was lucky in a way because he had left some 1000’s of still photographs behind him.
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> It was an embarrassing situation, because if I didn’t share his ambitions at least I still shared some of his aesthetic premises.
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> So, I chose the most embarrassing, and since they were embarrassing, I decided to deal with them by performing the humane act of incinerating them.
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> Since my subject was un-disposed, and I wished to be as objective as possible, I talked someone else into reading the narration, Michael Snow, who has been familiar with my activities for some years but of course was not at all  familiar with the activities of my subject.
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> As the film neared completion—so many vicissitudes surrounded its making—that I began to take heart: one lab scratched the original; the technicians at another went out of their way to tell me how bad the soundtrack was.
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> And at the end I felt that if I had not entirely entrained the sadness of this opaque young man’s life, I had at least made and burned an effigy of him.
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> The photographs of course were made over a considerable period of time, which I talk about in the film.  The script was written on the night of January 8th of 1971. The footage was made on the afternoon of February 23rd, 1971.  The sound negative and film were cut together two days later.  It was a quick and easy film to make of course.  I try to do things as easily as I can.


j

On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:33 PM, John Muse <jmuse at sonic.net> wrote:

> And just to make our lives more complicated.  On YouTube there's a version where the narrations begin at the cut to the new image!  Dang.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foJzsVYK83w
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> j 
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> On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuckkle at northwestern.edu> wrote:
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>> So, what’s the verdict here?
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>> 1. the critic was wrong
>> 2. there are two variant versions of (nostalgia) on DVD
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