Hollis Frampton Movies
- 1977
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I
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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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- 1976
For Georgia O'Keeffe
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“An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber
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- 1969
Black and White Film
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“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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- 1972
Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
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"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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- 1973
Less
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"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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- 1969
Works and Days
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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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- 1976
Procession
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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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- 1974
Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"
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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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- 1974
Pan 4
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A series of papers flutter in the wind.
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- 1984
A and B in Ontario
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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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- 1972
Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
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“A portrait of the filmmaker, Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” –Hollis...
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- 1969
Prince Ruperts Drops
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"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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- 1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
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During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...
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- 1976
Quaternion
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"Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating...
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- 1974
Pan 0
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Clouds roll by in a static haze.
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- 1974
Pan 2
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Rain falls and reflects the light.
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- 1977
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
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Short film by Hollis Frampton
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- 1971
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,...
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- 1974
Pan 3
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A journey through a field of corn.
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- 1974
Pan 698
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The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.
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