Hollis Frampton Movies

Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

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

"No, not the United etc. but the conditions, forms in which things exist. Somewhat abstracted, a solid, a liquid and a gas: salt, milk and smoke:...

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

"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...

"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits...

"This film is composed of different and relatively commonplace subjects, but each image is a super-imposition ('double exposure') of two similar...

(Formerly titled "VERNAL EQUINOX," 5 minute excerpt of Part 1 on the Criterion disc) "...Frampton explores human movement in relation to the film...