[Frameworks] experimental films with philosophical text?

[Kolberg, Sarah]

Ben –

You may wish to look at Hollis Frampton’s Zorn’s Lemma (the final section) – which references (however obliquely) the 11th C philosopher Robert Grosseteste, a medieval cosmologist and philosopher who wrote “On light and the beginning of forms, which was meant to offer a metaphor of the visible/tangible world as an symbol of the spiritual world.

                ~ sarah






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Subject: [Frameworks] experimental films with philosophical text?

Hi all,
Can you recommend to me any experimental, avant-garde films that examine key works/thinkers of Western continental or analytical philosophy?

The type of film I'm interested in is not a film that can be analyzed through a philosophical lens, but rather one in which a philosophical text makes some kind of direct appearance (through a quotation, intertitle, etc.) For instance, one example might be the 16mm film Valley Fever by Stephanie Beroes, 1986, which features a woman reading lengthy excerpts from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological thought.
I am currently working on a list of experimental films united by a common interest in visualizing philosophical texts.  Alas, this subfield is not my main area of expertise, so your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Ben



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Ben Ogrodnik
PhD student
K. Leroy Irvis Fellow
Department of Film Studies // History of Art and Architecture
University of Pittsburgh
BWO6 at pitt.edu<mailto:BWO6 at pitt.edu>
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