Hollis Framptonʼs short film is a classic of experimental cinema. Frampton, a student of Ezra Pound, was fascinated by physical metaphors, including James Clerk Maxwell’s famous thermodynamic thought experiment. By separating fast and slow gas molecules in a container, Maxwellʼs imaginary demon heats one half of it and cools the other, so that a heat engine could use this temperature difference to run forever. Frampton’s film enacts this endless motion, showing footage of a man doing push-ups over and over again.

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