Hollis Frampton

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.

Directed

1. Zorns Lemma (1970) — Director
2. Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) (1971) — Director
3. Lemon (1969) — Director
4. Pan 0 (1974) — Director
5. Surface Tension (1968) — Director
6. Pan 1 (1974) — Director
7. Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (1972) — Director
8. Pan 3 (1974) — Director
9. Process Red (1966) — Director
10. Carrots & Peas (1969) — Director
11. Pan 2 (1974) — Director
12. Maxwell's Demon (1968) — Director
13. Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I (1974) — Director
14. Pan 699 (1974) — Director
15. Gloria! (1979) — Director
16. The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (1977) — Director
17. Manual of Arms (1966) — Director
18. Pan 4 (1974) — Director
19. Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0 (1976) — Director
20. Pan 697 (1974) — Director
21. Pan 698 (1974) — Director
22. Winter Solstice (1974) — Director
23. Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass (1971) — Director
24. Pan 700 (1974) — Director
25. Palindrome (1969) — Director
26. Artificial Light (1969) — Director
27. Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter (1972) — Director
28. Less (1973) — Director
29. Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control (1972) — Director
30. A and B in Ontario (1967) — Director
31. Snowblind (1968) — Director
32. Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte (1971) — Director
33. Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects (1972) — Director
34. Heterodyne (1967) — Director
35. Autumnal Equinox (1974) — Director
36. Trees in the River, Kent OH (1973) — Director
37. Tree Over the Valley, Eaton (1974) — Director
38. Inside Silo 11 (1969) — Director
39. Matrix [First Dream] (1979) — Director
40. Works and Days (1969) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Wavelength (1967)
2. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) — Self (archive footage)
3. He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) — Self (archive footage)
4. A and B in Ontario (1967)
5. Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1979) — Max A. Zorn
6. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
7. Short Films 1975: #3 (Hollis Frampton) (1975)
8. Funtime at the Vasulkas (2006)
9. Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” (1973)