Hollis Frampton Filmes

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Light begins to illuminate the small, nipple-like end of a lemon on the right edge of the frame and gradually spreads until the entire lemon is...

"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...

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma),...

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

A journey through a field of corn.

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

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...

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a...

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

An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

Joyce Wieland: “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...

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

Shot at a steel mill, Winter Solstice is full of outpourings of fire, of smoke, of sparks, of molten metal — all erupting against an otherwise...

Rain falls and reflects the light.

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,...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.