Foreword in Three Letters

For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses

Hollis Frampton

“True Patriot Love”: The Films of Joyce Wieland

Regina Cornwell

“Zorns Lemma”

Wanda Bershen

“Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son”

Lois Mendelson and Bill Simon

A Cinematic Atopia

Robert Smithson

Paul Sharits: Illusion and Object

Regina Cornwell

Passage

Michael Snow

Statements

Richard Serra

“Paul Revere”

Joan Jonas and Richard Serra

The Films of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy

Barbara Rose

The Calisthenics of Vision: Open Instructions on the Films of George Landow

Paul Arthur

On Negative Space

Max Kozloff

“The Chelsea Girls”

Stephen Koch