Hollis Frampton Movies

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

A man and a woman have been living together for six months. After disappearing for two days, the man returns and acts as if nothing has happened,...

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...

A sampling of forty-nine fragments from Frampton's catalogue of 'actualities', the films from STRAITS OF MAGELLAN: "DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS" are all...

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...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of...

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma),...

Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon is...

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

Hollis Frampton alludes to origins and creation as he cuts between a garden featuring a bride and groom and an 1902 film entitled "A Little Piece of...

A journey through a field of corn.

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.

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...