Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1967
    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    51967HD

    “Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...

    Heterodyne
  • 1974
    Autumnal Equinox

    Autumnal Equinox

    Autumnal Equinox

    5.41974HD

    Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...

    Autumnal Equinox
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    01975HD

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

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
  • 1976
    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    01976HD

    "Strategy and imagery combat and aid each other in pairs. QUATERNION...a spatial figure of monumental attractions...interference...an undulating...

    Quaternion
  • 1974
    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton

    5.31974HD

    Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    Information

    Information

    Information

    71966HD

    Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2)...

    Information
  • 1974
    Straits of Magellan:

    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...

    Straits of Magellan:
  • 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]
  • 1972
    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    01972HD

    Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."

    Apparatus Sum
  • 1969
    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    01969HD

    By stripping the sound from a pre-existing instructional film, Frampton conjures, with an economy of means, the everyday movements then being...

    Works and Days
  • 1972
    Tiger Balm

    Tiger Balm

    Tiger Balm

    01972HD

    "After two years of massive didacticism in black-and-white [Hapax Legomena (1971-72)], I am surprised by Tiger Balm, lyrical, in color, a celebration...

    Tiger Balm
  • 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
  • 1975
    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    Pas de Trois

    01975HD

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

    Pas de Trois
  • 1967
    States

    States

    States

    01967HD

    "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:...

    States
  • 1969
    Prince Ruperts Drops

    Prince Ruperts Drops

    Prince Ruperts Drops

    01969HD

    "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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