Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 1977
    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV

    61977HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
  • 1975
    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)

    01975HD

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

    Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
  • 1974
    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

    4.31974HD

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

    Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I
  • 1974
    Pan 697

    Pan 697

    Pan 697

    3.81974HD

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

    Pan 697
  • 1973
    Less

    Less

    Less

    4.51973HD

    "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...

    Less
  • 1969
    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    Palindrome

    5.91969HD

    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...

    Palindrome
  • 1976
    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0

    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0

    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0

    4.81976HD

    A short film by Hollis Frampton.

    Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects

    7.21972HD

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

    Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
  • 1984
    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.91984HD

    Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were staying at a friend's house. We worked our way...

    A and B in Ontario
  • 1968
    Maxwell's Demon

    Maxwell's Demon

    Maxwell's Demon

    4.61968HD

    Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell's classic theory about the behavior of gas molecules is represented on-screen by a man performing a series of...

    Maxwell's Demon
  • 1969
    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    61969HD

    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...

    Artificial Light
  • 1968
    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    A Lecture

    01968HD

    This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow. Frampton would...

    A Lecture
  • 1972
    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter

    6.31972HD

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

    Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
  • 1980
    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII

    61980HD

    Short film by Hollis Frampton

    The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
  • 1968
    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    4.81968HD

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

    Snowblind
  • 1974
    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    5.11974HD

    A journey through a field of corn.

    Pan 3
  • 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
  • 1969
    Carrots & Peas

    Carrots & Peas

    Carrots & Peas

    4.41969HD

    A short film by Hollis Frampton.

    Carrots & Peas
  • 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
  • 1974
    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    4.51974HD

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

    Pan 1