Hollis Frampton
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.
Photos
Movies (74)
A Pentagram For the Narrative
2026 · Original Story
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
2012 · Director
Funtime at the Vasulkas
2006
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Self (archive footage)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
A and B in Ontario
1984 · Director
The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
1980 · Director
Gloria!
1979 · Director
![Matrix [First Dream]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hmh8u4S7QjokgGBMLG70vB2zomy.jpg)
Matrix [First Dream]
1979 · Director
More Than Meets The Eye
1979 · Director
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
1979 · Max A. Zorn
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I
1977 · Director
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
1977 · Director
Not the First Time
1976 · Director
Quaternion
1976 · Director
Otherwise Unexplained Fires
1976 · Director
Procession
1976 · Director
For Georgia O'Keeffe
1976 · Director
Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0
1976 · Director
The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
1976 · Director
The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II
1976 · Director
Pas de Trois
1975 · Director
Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
1975
Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I
1974 · Director
Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit
1974 · Director
Winter Solstice
1974 · Director
Summer Solstice
1974 · Director
Noctiluca
1974 · Director
Pan 3
1974 · Director
Pan 1
1974 · Director
Pan 2
1974 · Director
Pan 0
1974 · Director
Pan 4
1974 · Director
Pan 699
1974 · Director
Pan 698
1974 · Director
Pan 700
1974 · Director
Pan 697
1974 · Director
Autumnal Equinox
1974 · Director
Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"
1974 · Director
Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
1974 · Director
Less
1973 · Director
Trees in the River, Kent OH
1973 · Director
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
1972 · Director
Apparatus Sum
1972 · Director
Tiger Balm
1972 · Director
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
1972 · Director
Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
1972 · Director
Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
1972 · Director
Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
1972 · Director
Public Domain
1972 · Director
Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass
1971 · Director
Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
1971 · Director
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
1971 · Director
Zorns Lemma
1970 · Director, Sound, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Artificial Light
1969 · Director
Lemon
1969 · Director
Carrots & Peas
1969 · Director
Prince Ruperts Drops
1969 · Director
Palindrome
1969 · Director
Works and Days
1969 · Director
Inside Silo 11
1969 · Director
Black and White Film
1969 · Camera Operator
Maxwell's Demon
1968 · Director
Surface Tension
1968 · Director
A Lecture
1968 · Writer, Director
Snowblind
1968 · Director
Wavelength
1967
States
1967 · Director
Heterodyne
1967 · Director
Manual of Arms
1966 · Director
Information
1966 · Director
Process Red
1966 · Director
TV shows (0)
No credits available.