Question
A film with this structural conceit ends with different women reading from Robert Grosseteste’s On Light at the rate of a word per second over a wide shot of a snowy landscape. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this system that provides a repetitive structure for Hollis Frampton’s film Zorns Lemma. In Semiotics of the Kitchen, Martha Rosler holds up cooking implements that correspond to this system.
ANSWER: the alphabet [accept the Latin alphabet or English alphabet]
[10m] This director’s wife Saskia Boddeke shot a documentary in which he and his daughter Zoë use the alphabet to structure their conversations. He directed The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.
ANSWER: Peter Greenaway
[10e] A girl with a mask-like face sings the ABC song before coughing up blood on her bed in The Alphabet, a short film by this director of Lost Highway and Blue Velvet.
ANSWER: David Lynch [or David Keith Lynch]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 17 | 12.35 | 82% | 29% | 12% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell B | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Illinois | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| McGill | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | NYU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |