Hollis Frampton Movies

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

Rain falls and reflects the light.

The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery. Here, in a most rigorously...

“An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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

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

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

A journey through a field of corn.

Short film by Hollis Frampton

(Formerly titled "VERNAL EQUINOX," 5 minute excerpt of Part 1 on the Criterion disc) "...Frampton explores human movement in relation to the film...

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

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

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

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

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,...

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...

"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 frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor,...