Hollis Frampton Movies

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds.

Rain falls and reflects the light.

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

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

A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell's classic theory about the behavior of gas molecules is represented on-screen by a man performing a series of...

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,...

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

A journey through a field of corn.

"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...

An experimental short film which compares and contrasts the colors of carrots and peas.

In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a...

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery. Here, in a most rigorously...

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...