Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1975
    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

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    An analysis of film’s persistent relationship to sexuality, mediated by allusions to early cinema’s flicker, and other aggressive...

    Pas de Trois
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

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    Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
  • 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

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    "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
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    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...

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

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    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
  • 1972
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

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    "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
    Inside Silo 11

    Inside Silo 11

    Inside Silo 11

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    Upward shot from the ground perspective of a silo.

    Inside Silo 11
  • 1969
    Prince Ruperts Drops

    Prince Ruperts Drops

    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...

    Prince Ruperts Drops
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

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    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
  • 1974
    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

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    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
  • 1973
    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

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    Trees in the River, Kent OH
  • 1966
    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

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    In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

    Manual of Arms
  • 1968
    Maxwell's Demon

    Maxwell's Demon

    Maxwell's Demon

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    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...

    Maxwell's Demon
  • 1977
    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I

    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...

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I
  • 1977
    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

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    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
  • 1976
    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    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 Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

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    “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
  • 1968
    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    Snowblind

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    "Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

    Snowblind
  • 1976
    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

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    "Filmed in large part during H.F.'s lecture-screening tour in the bay area: visit(s) to the Musee Mechanique, Land's End, the Cliff House. The San...

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires
  • 1969
    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

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    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