Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    01974HD

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

    Summer Solstice
  • 1974
    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    01974HD

    Otherwise known as Magellan's Toys #1. Hollis Frampton's "Noctiluca" was a film designed to be shown on the second day of the Magellan cycle, the...

    Noctiluca
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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