Hollis Frampton Movies

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 pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

A journey through a field of corn.

In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a...

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

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

"...Frampton travels to the purported birthplace of the Eisensteinian model of cinema, the fairground, with its 'montage of attractions'...ambulating...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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

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

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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...

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...

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

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

A film of multiple superimpositions, utilizing the images of Solariumagelani (Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice) (1974) overlaid...

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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