Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 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
  • 1969
    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    Works and Days

    01969HD

    By stripping the sound from a pre-existing instructional film, Frampton conjures, with an economy of means, the everyday movements then being...

    Works and Days
  • 1974
    Pan 700

    Pan 700

    Pan 700

    4.91974HD

    A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

    Pan 700
  • 1974
    Pan 2

    Pan 2

    Pan 2

    4.71974HD

    Rain falls and reflects the light.

    Pan 2
  • 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
  • 1972
    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    Public Domain

    01972HD

    "In PUBLIC DOMAIN...(Frampton) recapitulates cinema's infancy in a series of direct quotes from such notable primitive works as RECORD OF A SNEEZE...

    Public Domain
  • 1973
    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    Trees in the River, Kent OH

    51973HD

    Trees in the River, Kent OH
  • 1974
    Pan 4

    Pan 4

    Pan 4

    4.81974HD

    A series of papers flutter in the wind.

    Pan 4
  • 1976
    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II

    01976HD

    "In the final format for MAGELLAN, Frampton had planned to disassemble these two films into twenty-four 'encounters with death' that were to be shown...

    The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II
  • 1976
    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    For Georgia O'Keeffe

    01976HD

    “An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber

    For Georgia O'Keeffe
  • 1972
    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    01972HD

    Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."

    Apparatus Sum