Hollis Frampton

Known for: Directing
Born: March 11, 1936, Wooster, Ohio, USA
Died: March 30, 1984
Movies: 73

Hollis Frampton is known for the broad and restless intelligence he brought to the films he made, beginning in the early '60s, until his death in 1984. In addition to being an important experimental filmmaker, he was also an accomplished photographer and writer, and in the 1970s made significant contributions to the emerging field of computer science. He is considered one of the pioneers of what has come to be termed structuralism, an influential style of experimental filmmaking that uses the basic elements of cinematic language to create works that investigate film form at the expense of traditional narrative content. Along with Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage, he is one of the major figures to emerge from the New York avant-garde film community of the 1960s.

Best-Known Movies

5.4

Wavelength

1967

7.8

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

6.6

Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

1971

6.4

Zorns Lemma

1970

4.9

Lemon

1969

4.6

Pan 0

1974

4.4

Pan 1

1974

5.2

Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

1972

5.5

Surface Tension

1968

5.0

Pan 3

1974

Filmography

2006	Funtime at the Vasulkas
2000	As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Self (archive footage)
1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)
1985	Home Movies 1971-81
1984	A and B in Ontario
1979	Grand Opera: An Historical Romance	Max A. Zorn
1975	Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1973	Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1967	Wavelength

Directing, Writing & Producing

2012	A Hollis Frampton Odyssey	Director
1984	A and B in Ontario	Director
1980	The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII	Director
1979	Gloria!	Director
1979	Matrix [First Dream]	Director
1979	More Than Meets The Eye	Director
1977	The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I	Director
1977	The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV	Director
1976	Not the First Time	Director
1976	Quaternion	Director
1976	Otherwise Unexplained Fires	Director
1976	Procession	Director
1976	For Georgia O'Keeffe	Director
1976	Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0	Director
1976	The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I	Director
1976	The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II	Director
1975	Pas de Trois	Director
1974	Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I	Director
1974	Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit	Director
1974	Winter Solstice	Director
1974	Summer Solstice	Director
1974	Noctiluca	Director
1974	Pan 3	Director
1974	Pan 1	Director
1974	Pan 2	Director
1974	Pan 0	Director
1974	Pan 4	Director
1974	Pan 697	Director
1974	Pan 698	Director
1974	Pan 699	Director
1974	Pan 700	Director
1974	Autumnal Equinox	Director
1974	Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"	Director
1974	Tree Over the Valley, Eaton	Director
1973	Less	Director
1973	Trees in the River, Kent OH	Director
1972	Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter	Director
1972	Apparatus Sum	Director
1972	Tiger Balm	Director
1972	Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice	Director
1972	Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control	Director
1972	Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects	Director
1972	Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)	Director
1972	Public Domain	Director
1971	Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass	Director
1971	Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte	Director
1971	Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)	Director
1970	Zorns Lemma	Director
1969	Artificial Light	Director
1969	Lemon	Director
1969	Carrots & Peas	Director
1969	Prince Ruperts Drops	Director
1969	Palindrome	Director
1969	Works and Days	Director
1969	Inside Silo 11	Director
1968	Maxwell's Demon	Director
1968	Surface Tension	Director
1968	A Lecture	Writer, Director
1968	Snowblind	Director
1967	States	Director
1967	Heterodyne	Director
1966	Manual of Arms	Director
1966	Information	Director
1966	Process Red	Director

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