Hollis Frampton — Director (16)
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Heterodyne (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Heterodyne
director: Hollis Frampton
“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other work as RNA to a protein or polypeptide. It was made in abject (if blissful) ignorance of Paul Sharits’ early work.” –Hollis Frampton
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Less (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Less
director: Hollis Frampton
"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 doubly punning work in which a minimalist Frampton generates a twenty-four frame (one-second) loop of the incremental blacking out of a nude image by photographer Les Krims." - Bruce Jenkins
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Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
director: Hollis Frampton
other title: 一次频词4：活动遮片
“This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker’s hand, wherein others only attempt to read the future.” – Stan Brakhage
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Apparatus Sum (1972) [Movie] Douban
director: Hollis Frampton
A series of colors, notably red, before a shot of a corpse's face and a series of body organs superimposed over one another.
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Gloria! (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Gloria!
director: Hollis Frampton
other title: 荣耀颂歌！
In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a videographic display of textual material. These two formal components (the film and the texts) in turn relate to a nineteenth-century figure, Frampton's maternal grandmother, and to a twentieth-century one, her grandson (filmmaker Frampton himself). In attempting to recapture their relationship, GLORIA! becomes a somewhat comic, often touching meditation on death, on memory and on the power of image, music and text to resurrect the past.