Hollis Frampton
Born: 1936-03-11 in Wooster, Ohio, USA
Died: 1984-03-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Hollis Frampton is known for the broad and restless intelligence he brought to the films he made, beginning in the early '60s, until his death in 1984. In addition to being an important experimental filmmaker, he was also an accomplished photographer and writer, and in the 1970s made significant contributions to the emerging field of computer science. He is considered one of the pioneers of what has come to be termed structuralism, an influential style of experimental filmmaking that uses the basic elements of cinematic language to create works that investigate film form at the expense of traditional narrative content. Along with Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage, he is one of the major figures to emerge from the New York avant-garde film community of the 1960s.
Filmography
2026
- A Pentagram For the Narrative ... (Original Story)
2012
- A Hollis Frampton Odyssey ... (Director)
2000
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self (archive footage)
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
1985
1984
1980
- The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII ... (Director)
1979
- Gloria! ... (Director)
- Grand Opera: An Historical Romance as Max A. Zorn
- More Than Meets The Eye ... (Director)
- Matrix [First Dream] ... (Director)
1977
- The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV ... (Director)
- The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I ... (Director)
1976
- Quaternion ... (Director)
- Procession ... (Director)
- The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I ... (Director)
- Not the First Time ... (Director)
- The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II ... (Director)
- Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0 ... (Director)
- For Georgia O'Keeffe ... (Director)
- Otherwise Unexplained Fires ... (Director)
1975
- Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton)
- Pas de Trois ... (Director)
1974
- Pan 1 ... (Director)
- Noctiluca ... (Director)
- Pan 0 ... (Director)
- Pan 3 ... (Director)
- Pan 2 ... (Director)
- Pan 700 ... (Director)
- Autumnal Equinox ... (Director)
- Pan 4 ... (Director)
- Pan 699 ... (Director)
- Summer Solstice ... (Director)
- Pan 697 ... (Director)
- Winter Solstice ... (Director)
- Pan 698 ... (Director)
- Tree Over the Valley, Eaton ... (Director)
- Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments" ... (Director)
- Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I ... (Director)
- Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit ... (Director)
1973
- Less ... (Director)
- Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
- Trees in the River, Kent OH ... (Director)
1972
- Apparatus Sum ... (Director)
- Tiger Balm ... (Director)
- Public Domain ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice ... (Director)
- Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1) ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects ... (Director)
1971
- Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte ... (Director)
- Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass ... (Director)
1970
- Zorns Lemma ... (Director)
1969
- Artificial Light ... (Director)
- Lemon ... (Director)
- Palindrome ... (Director)
- Carrots & Peas ... (Director)
- Black and White Film ... (Camera Operator)
- Prince Ruperts Drops ... (Director)
- Works and Days ... (Director)
- Inside Silo 11 ... (Director)
1968
- Snowblind ... (Director)
- Surface Tension ... (Director)
- Maxwell's Demon ... (Director)
- A Lecture ... (Writer)
1967
- Wavelength
- Heterodyne ... (Director)
- States ... (Director)
1966
- Process Red ... (Director)
- Information ... (Director)
- Manual of Arms ... (Director)