Hollis Frampton Movies
- 1967
Wavelength
Wavelength5.31967HD
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...
- 1970
Zorns Lemma
Zorns Lemma61970HD
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),...
- 2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.7882000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life81986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
- 1972
Apparatus Sum
Apparatus Sum01972HD
Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."
- 1969
Lemon
Lemon4.81969HD
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...
- 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:...
- 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...
- 1971
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)6.41971HD
Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...
- 1969
Inside Silo 11
Inside Silo 1151969HD
Upward shot from the ground perspective of a silo.
- 1969
Carrots & Peas
Carrots & Peas4.41969HD
A short film by Hollis Frampton.
- 1966
Information
Information71966HD
Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2)...
- 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...
- 1971
Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass
Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass5.91971HD
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,...
- 1969
Prince Ruperts Drops
Prince Ruperts Drops01969HD
"Two repetitive, banal rhythmic acts - as it were from the observe and reverse of a phenakistiscope disk - factored and expanded into a cinema...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1968
Surface Tension
Surface Tension5.51968HD
A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.
- 1974
Pan 697
Pan 6973.81974HD
A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.
- 1974
Pan 700
Pan 7004.91974HD
A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.