Hollis Frampton Movies

By stripping the sound from a pre-existing instructional film, Frampton conjures, with an economy of means, the everyday movements then being...

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...

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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

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

A film of multiple superimpositions, utilizing the images of Solariumagelani (Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice) (1974) overlaid...

Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

“An exquisite homage to O’Keeffe’s ‘Radiator Building, Night’.” –Mark Webber

"Filmed in large part during H.F.'s lecture-screening tour in the bay area: visit(s) to the Musee Mechanique, Land's End, the Cliff House. The San...