Hollis Frampton by Rachel Moore

Hollis Frampton by Rachel Moore

In his 1971 short film, (nostalgia), American artist and writer Hollis Frampton oveturned the conventional narrative roles of words and images. In his account of an artists's transformation from photographer to filmmaker, Frampton burns photographs he had taken and selected from his past along with one found photograph. A calm voice tells a story about an image, but the story is about the following image, not the one shown. Confounding comprehension still further, the narration begins and ends during the photograph's combustion; smoke and ashes get in our eyes while we are trying to make sense of the image and the narration--trying to remember the story that fits the image, trying to remember the image that fits the story. Frampton's (nostalgia) is a formal masterpiece, long overlooked and understudied. It emerges from a body of film work that is rarely screened, the prints damaged and difficult to locate. Frampton's work is valued in artist filmmaking and film theory circles, but it has never taken its rightful place at the heart of modern art theory. This study will introduce a new generation to a critical moment in art history--when (nostalgia) confirmed both the essence and fragility of cinema itself. Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press.

The Los Angeles Music Center's President and CEO is Rachel S. Moore, who was appointed in 2015. Moore was designated Executive Director of ABT in April 2004 and CEO in 2012. He was a former member of the American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet. She was the Director of the Boston Ballet's Center for Dance Education, the Executive Director of Project STEP, and the Managing Director of Ballet Theatre of Boston prior to her appointment. She has also worked with the American Federation for the Arts and the National Cultural Alliance, both in Washington, DC. She spent her summers as a youngster in New York City, where she received scholarship training at the Academy of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School before pursuing a career as a professional ballet dancer. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, two Labrador retrievers, and four unknown cats.