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Hollis Frampton (1936-1984)

Alias:
홀리스 프램튼
홀리스 프램프턴
홀리스 프램프톤
홀리스 플램튼

Birthplace:
Wooster, Ohio, USA

Born:
March 11, 1936

Died:
March 30, 1984

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1969  Black and White Film

Director:
1966  Information
1966  Manual of Arms
1966  Process Red
1967  Heterodyne
1967  States
1968  A Lecture
1968  Maxwell's Demon
1968  Snowblind
1968  Surface Tension
1969  Artificial Light
1969  Black and White Film
1969  Carrots & Peas
1969  Inside Silo 11
1969  Lemon
1969  Palindrome
1969  Prince Ruperts Drops
1969  Works and Days
1970  Zorns Lemma
1971  Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
1971  Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass
1971  Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
1972  Apparatus Sum
1972  Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
1972  Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
1972  Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
1972  Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
1972  Public Domain
1972  Tiger Balm
1972  Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
1973  Less
1973  Trees in the River, Kent OH
1974  Autumnal Equinox
1974  Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit
1974  Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I
1974  Noctiluca
1974  Pan 0
1974  Pan 1
1974  Pan 2
1974  Pan 3
1974  Pan 4
1974  Pan 697
1974  Pan 698
1974  Pan 699
1974  Pan 700
1974  Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"
1974  Summer Solstice
1974  Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
1974  Winter Solstice
1975  Pas de Trois
1976  For Georgia O'Keeffe
1976  Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0
1976  Not the First Time
1976  Otherwise Unexplained Fires
1976  Procession
1976  Quaternion
1976  The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II
1976  The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
1977  The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I
1977  The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
1979  Gloria!
1979  Matrix [First Dream]
1979  More Than Meets The Eye
1980  The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
1984  A and B in Ontario
2012  A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

Writer:
1966  Information
1966  Manual of Arms
1966  Process Red
1967  Heterodyne
1967  States
1968  A Lecture
1968  Maxwell's Demon
1968  Snowblind
1968  Surface Tension
1969  Artificial Light
1969  Black and White Film
1969  Carrots & Peas
1969  Inside Silo 11
1969  Lemon
1969  Palindrome
1969  Prince Ruperts Drops
1969  Works and Days
1970  Zorns Lemma
1971  Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
1971  Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass
1971  Hapax Legomena IV: Travelling Matte
1972  Apparatus Sum
1972  Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
1972  Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter
1972  Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
1972  Hapax Legomena VII: Special Effects
1972  Public Domain
1972  Tiger Balm
1972  Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
1973  Less
1973  Trees in the River, Kent OH
1974  Autumnal Equinox
1974  Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit
1974  Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I
1974  Noctiluca
1974  Pan 0
1974  Pan 1
1974  Pan 2
1974  Pan 3
1974  Pan 4
1974  Pan 697
1974  Pan 698
1974  Pan 699
1974  Pan 700
1974  Straits of Magellan: "Drafts and Fragments"
1974  Summer Solstice
1974  Tree Over the Valley, Eaton
1974  Winter Solstice
1975  Pas de Trois
1976  For Georgia O'Keeffe
1976  Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0
1976  Not the First Time
1976  Otherwise Unexplained Fires
1976  Procession
1976  Quaternion
1976  The Green Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part II
1976  The Red Gate: Magellan at the Gates of Death, Part I
1977  The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I
1977  The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza XIV
1979  Gloria!
1979  Matrix [First Dream]
1979  More Than Meets The Eye
1980  The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I & VII
1984  A and B in Ontario
2012  A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

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