Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1974
    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

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

    Summer Solstice
  • 1976
    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I

    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I

    The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I

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    "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 Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
  • 1974
    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

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    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
  • 1976
    Quaternion

    Quaternion

    Quaternion

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

    Quaternion
  • 1976
    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    For Georgia O'Keeffe

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

    For Georgia O'Keeffe
  • 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
  • 1974
    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit

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

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    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...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 1976
    Procession

    Procession

    Procession

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

    Procession
  • 1976
    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires

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    "Filmed in large part during H.F.'s lecture-screening tour in the bay area: visit(s) to the Musee Mechanique, Land's End, the Cliff House. The San...

    Otherwise Unexplained Fires
  • 1969
    Black and White Film

    Black and White Film

    Black and White Film

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    “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