Hollis Frampton Movies

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

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

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

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

A series of papers flutter in the wind.

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

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

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

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,...