Hollis Frampton

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-03-11 (48 years old)

Deathday

1984-03-30

Place of Birth

Wooster, Ohio, USA

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...

Production

1970

Zorns Lemma

as Director

1976

1974

Pan 3

as Director

1968

Maxwell's Demon

as Director

1974

Pan 1

as Director

1974

Pan 2

as Director

1968

Surface Tension

as Director

1969

Lemon

as Director

1966

Manual of Arms

as Director

1979

Gloria!

as Director

1974

Pan 0

as Director

1974

Pan 4

as Director

1966

Process Red

as Director

1969

Carrots & Peas

as Director

1974

Pan 697

as Director

1974

Pan 698

as Director

1974

Pan 699

as Director

1974

Pan 700

as Director

1974

Winter Solstice

as Director

1967

Heterodyne

as Director

1984

1969

Artificial Light

as Director

1969

Palindrome

as Director

1969

Works and Days

as Director

1968

A Lecture

as Writer

1967

States

as Director

1966

Information

as Director

1973

Less

as Director

1972

Apparatus Sum

as Director

1976

1969

1968

Snowblind

as Director

1974

Autumnal Equinox

as Director

1974

Noctiluca

as Director

1974

Summer Solstice

as Director

1979

1972

Tiger Balm

as Director

1975

Pas de Trois

as Director

1969

Black and White Film

as Camera Operator

1969

Inside Silo 11

as Director

1972

Public Domain

as Director

1968

A Lecture

as Director

1976

Procession

as Director

1976

Quaternion

as Director

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