Direction: Hollis Frampton
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Hollis Frampton. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
1971 · Documentary · 31 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
7.8
44 votes
7.8
44 votes
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
1971 · Documentary · 36 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot In (nostalgia) the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating,...
7.6
84 votes
7.6
84 votes
Zorns Lemma
1970 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Cast Twyla Tharp · Joyce Wieland
Plot Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an American avant-garde film-maker. Among his films was "Zorn's Lemma", a structural film based on transformations of alphabetic sets, inspired by the mathematical theorem named after...
7.4
123 votes
7.4
123 votes
Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass (S)
1971 · Movie · 26 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Cast Frank Albetta · Barbara DiBenedetto
7.4
34 votes
7.4
34 votes
Winter Solstice
1974 · Documentary · 33 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot Silent piece shot at U.S. Steel's Homestead Works in Pittsburgh.
7.0
38 votes
7.0
38 votes
Surface Tension (S)
1968 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
6.9
76 votes
6.9
76 votes
Manual of Arms (S)
1966 · Documentary · 17 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot Courtly dances with friends and lovers, in the form of a 14 part drill for the camera, incorporating physiognomic & locomotor evidence related to the lens by 13 artists and...
6.4
26 votes
6.4
26 votes
A and B in Ontario (S)
1984 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada
Direction Hollis Frampton · Joyce Wieland
Cast Hollis Frampton · Joyce Wieland
Plot “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 through the city and eventually...
6.3
58 votes
6.3
58 votes
5.8
133 votes
Snowblind (S)
1968 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot "Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work."
5.6
38 votes
5.6
38 votes
5.6
76 votes
5.0
42 votes
Carrots & Peas (S)
1969 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot A 'traditional' side-dish of mixed vegetables inhabits a succession of 'traditional' art-styles. The sumptuous, sometimes tiresome paradox of the static image in film, is rudely presented in the form of...
4.9
29 votes
4.9
29 votes
Maxwell's Demon (S)
1968 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
4.8
48 votes
4.8
48 votes
Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys: #1) (S)
1974 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
4.5
30 votes
4.5
30 votes
4.4
28 votes
4.3
50 votes
4.2
53 votes
Information (S)
1966 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Plot "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2) rawstock; 3) a single bare lightbulb. I admit to having made a number...
4.2
25 votes
4.2
25 votes
4.1
54 votes