Hollis Frampton

Hollis Frampton

Hollis Frampton is known for the broad and restless intelligence he brought to the films he made, beginning in the early '60s, until his death in 1984. In addition to being an important experimental filmmaker, he was also an accomplished photographer and writer, and in the 1970s made significant contributions to the emerging field of computer science. He is considered one of the pioneers of what has come to be termed structuralism, an influential style of experimental filmmaking that uses the basic elements of cinematic language to create works that investigate film form at the expense of traditional narrative content. Along with Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage, he is one of the major figures to emerge from the New York avant-garde film community of the 1960s.

  • Title: Hollis Frampton
  • Popularity: 0.332
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1936-03-11
  • Place of Birth: Wooster, Ohio, USA
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  • Also Known As: 홀리스 프램프턴, 홀리스 프램프톤, 홀리스 프램튼, 홀리스 플램튼
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Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1986
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    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8 1986 HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1975
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    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    1 1975 HD

    Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

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  • 1984
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    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.9 1984 HD

    Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were staying at a friend's house. We worked our way...

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  • 1967
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    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    5.3 1967 HD

    Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

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  • 2000
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    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    7.8 2000 HD

    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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  • 1978
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    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    8 1978 HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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  • 2006
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    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    1 2006 HD

    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

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  • 1970
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    Zorns Lemma

    Zorns Lemma

    6 1970 HD

    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),...

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  • 1976
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    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    1 1976 HD

    “An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber

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  • 1972
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    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

    5.2 1972 HD

    Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of...

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  • 1968
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    Maxwell's Demon

    Maxwell's Demon

    4.6 1968 HD

    Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell's classic theory about the behavior of gas molecules is represented on-screen by a man performing a series of...

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  • 1974
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    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    5.091 1974 HD

    A journey through a field of corn.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    4.5 1974 HD

    A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

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  • 1977
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    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I

    4 1977 HD

    Hollis Frampton alludes to origins and creation as he cuts between a garden featuring a bride and groom and an 1902 film entitled "A Little Piece of...

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  • 1968
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    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    5.5 1968 HD

    A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 2

    Pan 2

    4.714 1974 HD

    Rain falls and reflects the light.

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  • 1971
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    Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass

    Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass

    5.9 1971 HD

    A man and a woman have been living together for six months. After disappearing for two days, the man returns and acts as if nothing has happened,...

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  • 1971
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    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

    6.4 1971 HD

    Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

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  • 1969
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    Lemon

    Lemon

    4.8 1969 HD

    Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon is...

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  • 1966
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    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

    5 1966 HD

    In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

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  • 1979
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    Gloria!

    Gloria!

    4.9 1979 HD

    In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a...

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  • 1974
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    Pan 0

    Pan 0

    4.4 1974 HD

    Clouds roll by in a static haze.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 4

    Pan 4

    4.8 1974 HD

    A series of papers flutter in the wind.

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  • 1966
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    Process Red

    Process Red

    4.909 1966 HD

    An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 699

    Pan 699

    3.8 1974 HD

    A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

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  • 1976
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    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0

    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0

    4.8 1976 HD

    A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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  • 1969
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    Carrots & Peas

    Carrots & Peas

    4.4 1969 HD

    A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 698

    Pan 698

    4.063 1974 HD

    The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 700

    Pan 700

    4.867 1974 HD

    A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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  • 1974
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    Pan 697

    Pan 697

    3.75 1974 HD

    A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

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  • 1975
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    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

    4.3 1975 HD

    An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

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  • 1974
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    Winter Solstice

    Winter Solstice

    5.1 1974 HD

    Shot at a steel mill, Winter Solstice is full of outpourings of fire, of smoke, of sparks, of molten metal — all erupting against an otherwise...

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  • 1967
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    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    5 1967 HD

    “Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...

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  • 1984
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    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.9 1984 HD

    Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were staying at a friend's house. We worked our way...

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  • 1969
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    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    6 1969 HD

    Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New...

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  • 1969
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    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    5.9 1969 HD

    While working at a photo lab, Frampton found that the waste at both ends of the rolls of processed film—where chemicals worked on the emulsion...

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  • 1969
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    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    1 1969 HD

    By stripping the sound from a pre-existing instructional film, Frampton conjures, with an economy of means, the everyday movements then being...

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  • 2012
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    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    1 2012 HD

    This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

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  • 1972
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    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    1 1972 HD

    Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."

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  • 1973
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    Less

    Less

    4.5 1973 HD

    "Near the end of 1973, Frampton realized that he had not finished a single film over the course of a year. He promptly conceived and executed LESS, a...

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  • 1967
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    States

    States

    1 1967 HD

    "No, not the United etc. but the conditions, forms in which things exist. Somewhat abstracted, a solid, a liquid and a gas: salt, milk and smoke:...

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  • 1969
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    Prince Ruperts Drops

    Prince Ruperts Drops

    1 1969 HD

    "Two repetitive, banal rhythmic acts - as it were from the observe and reverse of a phenakistiscope disk - factored and expanded into a cinema...

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  • 1966
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    Information

    Information

    7 1966 HD

    Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2)...

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  • 1976
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    Not the First Time

    Not the First Time

    1 1976 HD

    "This film is composed of different and relatively commonplace subjects, but each image is a super-imposition ('double exposure') of two similar...

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  • 1974
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    Autumnal Equinox

    Autumnal Equinox

    5.4 1974 HD

    Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...

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  • 1972
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    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    6.3 1972 HD

    "A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a...

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  • 1968
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    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    4.8 1968 HD

    "Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

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  • 1973
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    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    5 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    5.3 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

    7.8 1972 HD

    “A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and...

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  • 1971
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    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte

    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte

    5.5 1971 HD

    “This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker’s hand,...

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  • 1972
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    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    7.2 1972 HD

    “The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor,...

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  • 1974
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    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    1 1974 HD

    Otherwise known as Magellan's Toys #1. Hollis Frampton's "Noctiluca" was a film designed to be shown on the second day of the Magellan cycle, the...

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  • 1974
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    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    1 1974 HD

    "The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits...

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  • 1979
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    Matrix [First Dream]

    Matrix [First Dream]

    4.5 1979 HD

    A film of multiple superimpositions, utilizing the images of Solariumagelani (Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice) (1974) overlaid...

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  • 1972
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    Tiger Balm

    Tiger Balm

    1 1972 HD

    "After two years of massive didacticism in black-and-white [Hapax Legomena (1971-72)], I am surprised by Tiger Balm, lyrical, in color, a celebration...

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  • 1975
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    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    1 1975 HD

    An analysis of film’s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema’s flicker, and other aggressive...

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  • 1969
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    Black and White Film

    Black and White Film

    1 1969 HD

    “For Black and White Film, Huot created his own photographic imagery for the first time. After a few moments of darkness, a young woman (Sheila...

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  • 1976
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    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I

    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I

    1 1976 HD

    "In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown...

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  • 2012
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    A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

    A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

    5 2012 HD

    An icon of the American avant-garde, Hollis Frampton made rigorous, audacious, brainy, and downright thrilling films, leaving behind a body of work...

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  • 1969
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    Inside Silo 11

    Inside Silo 11

    5 1969 HD

    Upward shot from the ground perspective of a silo.

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  • 1972
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    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

    1 1972 HD

    “A portrait of the filmmaker, Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” –Hollis...

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  • 1974
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    Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"

    Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"

    7 1974 HD

    A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: "DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS" are all...

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  • 1972
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    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    1 1972 HD

    "In PUBLIC DOMAIN...(Frampton) recapitulates cinema's infancy in a series of direct quotes from such notable primitive works as RECORD OF A SNEEZE...

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  • 2012
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    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    1 2012 HD

    This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

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  • 1976
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    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    1 1976 HD

    "Filmed in large part during H.F.'s lecture-screening tour in the bay area: visit(s) to the Musee Mechanique, Land's End, the Cliff House. The San...

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  • 1977
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    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    6 1977 HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

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  • 1980
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    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    6 1980 HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

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  • 1976
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    Procession

    Procession

    1 1976 HD

    The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery. Here, in a most rigorously...

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  • 1979
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    More Than Meets The Eye

    More Than Meets The Eye

    1 1979 HD

    "...Frampton travels to the purported birthplace of the Eisensteinian model of cinema, the fairground, with its 'montage of attractions'...ambulating...

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  • 1976
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    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    1 1976 HD

    "Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating...

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