Preface / Hollis Frampton -- Foreword / Annette Michelson -- Plates -- A pentagram for conjuring the narrative -- Eadweard Muybridge: Fragments of a tesseract -- Film in the house of the word -- Incisions in history/segments of eternity -- For a metahistory of film: Commonplace notes and hypotheses -- Notes on composing in film -- Meditations around Paul Strand -- Impromptus on Edward Weston: Everything in its place -- The withering away of the state of the art -- A stipulation of terms from maternal Hopi -- Digressions on the photographic agony -- A lecture.