Straights of Magellan: Selected Pans. Hollis Frampton, 1969-74.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #607 A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, released 2012. No dialogue tracks. Cumulative runtime approximately 9 minutes.
Summary: Two of the nine 1-minute films show graphic animal violence.
Frampton reserved space for 720 1-minute “Pans” in his monumental Magellan project. In 1974, Frampton released forty-nine of the short films under the title Straits of Magellan: Drafts & Fragments. The Criterion disc organizes nine of these Pans as follows:
Pan 0 and Pan 1: Pan 0 is possibly a recreation of Frampton’s (destroyed) 1964 film Clouds Like White Sheep. Pan 1 is catalogued as “Light Pull Pendulum 1/74 Eaton”
Pan 2: A scene of falling liquid from Frampton’s 1970 series States.
Pan 3 and Pan 4: Pan 3 is a hand-held run through a cornfield. Pan 4, “Maxwell’s Ghost 1/74” refers to physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Pan 697 and Pan 698: Pan 697 “Butchering” shows the head being cut from a dead cow that lies in the snow. Pan 698 is “Panning Buttercup 6/73 Eaton”.
Pan 699 and Pan 700: Pan 699 “Will and Frog” shows a boy holding a fishing line from which a large frog squirms and kicks in agony. Pan 700 is a New York street scene “Quad Super-Traffic 12/69”.