Movies
- 1967
Heterodyne
Heterodyne51967HD
“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...
- 1972
Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control7.81972HD
“A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and...
- 1975
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)01975HD
Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.
- 1967
States
States01967HD
"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:...
- 1968
A Lecture
A Lecture01968HD
This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...
- 1976
Not the First Time
Not the First Time01976HD
"This film is composed of different and relatively commonplace subjects, but each image is a super-imposition ('double exposure') of two similar...
- 1977
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV61977HD
Short film by Hollis Frampton
- 1974
Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
Tree Over the Valley, Eaton5.31974HD
- 1972
Tiger Balm
Tiger Balm01972HD
"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...
- 1971
Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte5.51971HD
“This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker’s hand,...
- 1979
More Than Meets The Eye
More Than Meets The Eye01979HD
"...Frampton travels to the purported birthplace of the Eisensteinian model of cinema, the fairground, with its 'montage of attractions'...ambulating...
- 1976
Quaternion
Quaternion01976HD
"Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating...
- 1966
Information
Information71966HD
Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2)...
- 1975
Pas de Trois
Pas de Trois01975HD
An analysis of film’s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema’s flicker, and other aggressive...
- 1976
The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I01976HD
"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...
- 1972
Public Domain
Public Domain01972HD
"In PUBLIC DOMAIN...(Frampton) recapitulates cinema's infancy in a series of direct quotes from such notable primitive works as RECORD OF A SNEEZE...
- 1969
Works and Days
Works and Days01969HD
By stripping the sound from a pre-existing instructional film, Frampton conjures, with an economy of means, the everyday movements then being...
- 1974
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice01974HD
"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits...
- 1972
Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects7.21972HD
“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor,...
- 1980
The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII61980HD
Short film by Hollis Frampton