Hollis Frampton Movies
- 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...
- 1974
Pan 4
Pan 44.81974HD
A series of papers flutter in the wind.
- 1974
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice5.11974HD
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...
- 1973
Less
Less4.51973HD
"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...
- 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...
- 1972
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice5.21972HD
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...
- 1974
Pan 3
Pan 35.11974HD
A journey through a field of corn.
- 1968
Maxwell's Demon
Maxwell's Demon4.61968HD
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...
- 1974
Pan 2
Pan 24.71974HD
Rain falls and reflects the light.
- 1977
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV61977HD
Short film by Hollis Frampton
- 1974
Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"
Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"71974HD
A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: "DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS" are all...
- 1969
Palindrome
Palindrome5.91969HD
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...
- 1976
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, 04.81976HD
A short film by Hollis Frampton.
- 1984
A and B in Ontario
A and B in Ontario5.91984HD
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...
- 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...
- 1976
Quaternion
Quaternion01976HD
"Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating...
- 1968
Snowblind
Snowblind4.81968HD
"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...
- 1974
Pan 698
Pan 6984.11974HD
The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.
- 1967
Heterodyne
Heterodyne51967HD
“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...
- 1969
Artificial Light
Artificial Light61969HD
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...