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Hapax Legomena IV - VII

Screening on Film
  • Travelling Matte

    Directed by Hollis Frampton.
    US, 1971, 16mm, black & white, silent, 34 min.

This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker’s hand, wherein others only attempt to read the future. – Stan Brakhage

  • Ordinary Matter

    Directed by Hollis Frampton.
    US, 1972, 16mm, black & white, silent, 29 min.

A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a monument to connection), Stonehenge (a monument to the intercourse between consciousness and LIGHT)…visiting along the way diverse meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and ending in the remembered cornfields of my childhood. The soundtrack annexes, as mantram, the Wade-Giles syllabary of the Chinese language. – HF

  • Remote Control

    Directed by Hollis Frampton.
    US, 1972, 16mm, black & white, silent, 29 min.

A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space. – HF

  • Special Effects

    Directed by Hollis Frampton.
    US, 1972, 16mm, black & white, 11 min.

The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising. – HF

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