Hollis Frampton Movies

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

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

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

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...

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

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),...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

A journey through a field of corn.

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 series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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,...

Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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...

"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

“A portrait of the filmmaker, Paul Sharits, in particular response to energies he generated one May afternoon in 1971.” –Hollis...