Movies
- 2000

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.82000HD
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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- 1967

Wavelength
Wavelength5.41967HD
In a Lower Manhattan industrial loft, a camera very slowly zooms into a photograph on a wall while various people occasionally enter and exit.
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- 1970

Zorns Lemma
Zorns Lemma6.41970HD
Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structural film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), a...
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- 1973

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”01973HD
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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- 1985

Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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- 1972

Apparatus Sum
Apparatus Sum01972HD
Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."
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- 1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life8.41986HD
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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- 2026

A Pentagram For the Narrative
A Pentagram For the Narrative02026HD
Adapting an unpublished screenplay by Hollis Frampton, Charli explores and challenges the perceptions of trans women at their most intensely...
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- 1979

Gloria!
Gloria!4.91979HD
In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a...
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- 1974

Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I
Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I4.21974HD
An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.
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- 1979

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance7.51979HD
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...
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- 1972

Tiger Balm
Tiger Balm01972HD
"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...
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- 1971

Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)6.61971HD
Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...
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- 1976

The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I01976HD
"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...
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- 1968

Snowblind
Snowblind4.81968HD
"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...
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- 1967

Heterodyne
Heterodyne51967HD
“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...
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- 1974

Autumnal Equinox
Autumnal Equinox5.41974HD
Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...
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- 2006

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...
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- 1966

Manual of Arms
Manual of Arms51966HD
In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...
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- 1974

Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice01974HD
"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits...
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