Hollis Frampton Movie Trailers

The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

"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 in five-minute segments twice a month.

Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) Trailer (1971)

20 November 1971

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

Artificial Light Trailer (1969)

31 December 1969

Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally.

Lemon Trailer (1969)

30 November 1969

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 clearly visible.

Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass Trailer (1971)

04 December 1971

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, refusing to say where he was.

Pan 3 Trailer (1974)

13 February 1974

A journey through a field of corn.

Palindrome Trailer (1969)

08 July 1969

While working at a photo lab, Frampton found that the waste at both ends of the rolls of processed film—where chemicals worked on the emulsion through clips used to attach the film to the machine—produced images far too interesting to be discarded.

Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” Trailer (1973)

26 March 1973

During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers.

Heterodyne Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader.

Carrots & Peas Trailer (1969)

30 November 1969

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

Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I Trailer (1974)

31 December 1974

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

Gloria! Trailer (1979)

31 December 1979

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

Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit Trailer (1974)