Movies

  • 1967
    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

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

    Heterodyne
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control

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

    Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    01975HD

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

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
  • 1967
    States

    States

    States

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    "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:...

    States
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    01968HD

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

    A Lecture
  • 1976
    Not the First Time

    Not the First Time

    Not the First Time

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

    Not the First Time
  • 1977
    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

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    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
  • 1974
    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

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    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
  • 1972
    Tiger Balm

    Tiger Balm

    Tiger Balm

    01972HD

    "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...

    Tiger Balm
  • 1971
    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte

    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte

    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte

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

    Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
  • 1979
    More Than Meets The Eye

    More Than Meets The Eye

    More Than Meets The Eye

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

    More Than Meets The Eye
  • 1976
    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    01976HD

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

    Quaternion
  • 1966
    Information

    Information

    Information

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

    Information
  • 1975
    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    01975HD

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

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

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

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

    01976HD

    "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...

    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
  • 1972
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    01972HD

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

    Public Domain
  • 1969
    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    01969HD

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

    Works and Days
  • 1974
    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

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

    Summer Solstice
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

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

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
  • 1980
    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

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    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII