Zorns Lemma

Zorns Lemma (1970)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1970-04-01
  • User Rating: 6.1/10 from 28 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Word Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Hollis Frampton
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Summary

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), a proposition of set theory formulated by mathematician Max Zorn in 1935. Zorns Lemma is prefaced with a reading from an early grammar textbook. The remainder of the film, largely silent, shows the viewer an evolving 24-part "alphabet" (where i & j and u & v are interchanged) which is cycled through, replaced and expanded upon. The film's conclusion shows a man, woman and dog walking through snow as several voices read passages from On Light, or the Ingression of Forms by Robert Grosseteste.

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