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...

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

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

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

A journey through a field of corn.

A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by.

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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

A short film by Hollis Frampton.

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 pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

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...

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

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

An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

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

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...

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...