Toni D’ANGELA, Bruce JENKINS, Olga KOBRYN (dir.) with the assistance of Swann REMBERT Photo by Marion Faller. Image copyright estate of Marion Faller. Editors’ Introduction: The Lab of Thought by Bruce JENKINS, Toni D’ANGELA, Olga KOBRYN “Cinema is a Greek word that means ‘movie.’ The illusion of movement is certainly an accustomed adjunct to the film […]
Bruce Jenkins
Encountering Frampton
Spring 2026 Photo by Marion Faller. Image copyright estate of Marion Faller. “It was a time when the boundaries between intellectual life, artistic life, and everyday social life felt much more porous than they do now. The atmosphere was informal, intense, and very alive. People would sit for hours listening, arguing, smoking, watching films, and […]
Curiouser and curiouser: Into the rabbit hole(s) of Hollis Frampton scholarship
The following roundtable discussion took place online January 10th, 2025, with participants Zooming in from North America, Europe, and Australia. The roundtable included some, though by no means all, of the most active English-language scholars of Hollis Frampton’s writings, films, and other artistic work. The discussion revealed the central importance of methodology, interdisciplinarity, and historical […]

Hollis Frampton’s “Autumnal Equinox”: A Modernist Film and Its Pictoral Past
A historical piece by Bruce Jenkins about Hollis Frampton’s Autumnal Equinox.