Word Pictures

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.

This is a DVD which was handed to a relative of mine while on a night out in Newcastle because nobody was willing to pay the price printed on the cover (possibly because mastering a DVD to these people was dropping an MPG file into the root directory). It's hard to describe this film, but I'll try. Word Sword is a film created by a group of religious people of multiple faiths as a hard hitting expose of modern culture, primarily critical of drugs, but also of petty theft and assault. The problem with this serious attempt is that they don't really understand anything about the world. It's hard to tell if they're serious since the acting and production are literally all over the place.