Hollis Frampton Movie Trailers

Winter Solstice Trailer (1974)

30 December 1974

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 black background in an activated pictorial space.

Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton) Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

A Lecture Trailer (1968)

30 October 1968

This performance piece by filmmaker Hollis Frampton, recorded in 1968 in New York City, features the voice of artist Michael Snow.

Procession Trailer (1976)

03 May 1976

The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery.

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.

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.

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.

Pan 3 Trailer (1974)

13 February 1974

A journey through a field of corn.

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.

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)

31 December 1974

(Formerly titled "VERNAL EQUINOX," 5 minute excerpt of Part 1 on the Criterion disc) "...Frampton explores human movement in relation to the film frame.