Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

    5.21972HD

    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...

    Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    02006HD

    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 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
  • 1973
    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    51973HD

    Trees in the River, Kent OH
  • 1974
    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    5.11974HD

    A journey through a field of corn.

    Pan 3
  • 1972
    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)

    01972HD

    “A portrait of the filmmaker, Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” –Hollis...

    Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
  • 1974
    Pan 697

    Pan 697

    Pan 697

    3.81974HD

    A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

    Pan 697
  • 1974
    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    4.51974HD

    A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

    Pan 1
  • 1974
    Winter Solstice

    Winter Solstice

    Winter Solstice

    5.11974HD

    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...

    Winter Solstice
  • 1980
    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    61980HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    7.21972HD

    “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
  • 1969
    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    61969HD

    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...

    Artificial Light
  • 1976
    Procession

    Procession

    Procession

    01976HD

    The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery. Here, in a most rigorously...

    Procession
  • 1969
    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    5.91969HD

    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...

    Palindrome
  • 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
  • 1979
    Matrix [First Dream]

    Matrix [First Dream]

    Matrix [First Dream]

    4.51979HD

    A film of multiple superimpositions, utilizing the images of Solariumagelani (Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice) (1974) overlaid...

    Matrix [First Dream]
  • 1976
    Not the First Time

    Not the First Time

    Not the First Time

    01976HD

    "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

    61977HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
  • 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
    Black and White Film

    Black and White Film

    Black and White Film

    01969HD

    “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...

    Black and White Film