Hollis Frampton Selection 4: The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII (1977-80)

Frampton wsa especially fascinated by Eisenstein s theory of vertical montage, the notion that filmic structure could be built not only horizontally (sequentially), like a melody, but vertically, like a chord. In the MINDFALL sections of Magellan Frampton used desynchronized sound, along with super-imposition and a complex editing structure, to approach the possibility of vertical montage - Harvey Nosowitz