Hollis Frampton Movies

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: "DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS" are all...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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

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

"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...

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

"A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a...