ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION – ‘ALPHABETTI SPAGHETTI’
Saturday 19th June

A response to Hollis Frampton’s Zorns Lemma’ with Nicolas de Oliveira, Gilly Fox and Nick Haeffner

followed by

Zorn’s Lemma, (1970), 60 mins
Hollis Frampton

A filmic alphabet primer. Zorn’s Lemma uses the alphabet and mathematical systems to structure the film. The majority of the film, largely silent, shows the viewer an evolving 24-part “alphabet” (composed initially of street signs photographed in New York City) which is cycled through, replaced and expanded upon.

Biographies:

Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer/theoretician, and a pioneer of digital art.

Nicolas de Oliveira is a Curator, Writer and Head of ‘Curating the Contemporary’ at London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Gilly Fox is a freelance film curator, and curator of films for Mulberry Tree Press.

Nick Haeffner is a writer and curator of film. He is the author of ‘Alfred Hitchcock’ (Pearson 2005) and a forthcoming book on ‘Michael Winterbottom and revolution films. He is a Senior Tutor in Communications at London Metropolitan University.