Hollis Frampton

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Hollis Frampton (born March 11, 1936 in Wooster , Ohio , USA , † March 30, 1984 in New York City ) was an American avant-garde experimental filmmaker , video artist , writer , theorist and photographer .

life and work

Hollis Frampton was from 1951 at the Phillips Academy boarding school in Andover , Massachusetts , where he met Frank Stella and Carl Andre . He studied from 1954 to 1956 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , where he took a number of subjects, but left without a degree. Frampton began an exchange of letters with Ezra Pound in 1956. He moved to Washington, DC, and visited the sick poet in the hospital almost every day in the fall of 1957. Then pound ended the work on the Rock Drill - Cantos and began the throne-Section. He also read the entire poem with explanations to his visitors. Frampton translated at the suggestion of Pounds Leo Frobenius book Erlebte Erdteile (1925-29). In March 1958, Frampton went to New York and moved into an apartment on Mulberry Street with his friends Andre and Stella, later only Andre. He began with photography, documenting the work of Stella ( The Secret World of Frank Stella ; 1958–62) and Andre (1959–). He also portrayed James Rosenquist and Larry Poons (for Vogue , August 1965). He lived with the artist Lee Lozano in 1965 . In 1966 he married Marcia Steinbrecher, they were divorced in 1974.

In 1962, Frampton began filming and worked as a structural filmmaker. His most important work is Zorn's Lemma (1970), which drastically changed the perception of experimental film. Alongside Stan Brakhage , Hollis Frampton was a pioneer of abstract expression in American film. Hollis Frampton showed nostalgia and critical mass at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New American Cinema department .

Filmography

  • Clouds Like White Sheep (1962) 25 min 16mm (destroyed)
  • A Running Man (1963) 22 min 16mm (destroyed)
  • Ten Mile Poem (1964) 33 min 16mm (destroyed)
  • Obelisk Ampersand Encounter (1965) 1:30 min 16mm (lost)
  • Information (1966) 4 min 16mm
  • Manual of Arms (1966) 17 min 16mm
  • Process Red (1966) 3:30 min 16mm
  • Heterodyne (1967) 7 min 16mm
  • Maxwell's Demon (1968) 4 min 16mm
  • Snowblind (1968) 5:30 min 16mm
  • Surface Tension (1968) 10 min 16mm
  • Artificial Light (1969) 25 min 16mm
  • Carrots and Peas (1969) 5:30 min 16mm
  • Lemon (1969) 7:30 min 16mm
  • Palindrome (1969) 22 min 16mm
  • Prince Rupert Drops (1969) 7 min 16mm
  • Work and Days (1969) 12 mins 16mm
  • States (1967, Revised 1970) 17:30 min 16mm
  • Zorn's Lemma (1970) 60 min 16mm
  • Clouds of Magellan (1971) 16mm
  • Critical Mass (1971) 25:30 min 16mm
  • nostalgia (1971) 36 min 16mm
  • Traveling Matte (1971) 33:30 min 16mm
  • Appartus Sum (1972) 3 min 16mm
  • Given:. . . (1972) 28 min 16mm
  • Hapax Legomena (1971–1972) 3 hrs 22 min 16mm
  • Ordinary Matter (1972) 36 min 16mm
  • Poetic Justice (1972) 31:30 min 16mm
  • Public Domain (1972) 18 min 16mm
  • Remote Control (1972) 29 min 16mm
  • Special Effects (1972) 10:30 min 16mm
  • Tiger Balm (1972) 10 min 16mm
  • Yellow Springs (1972) 5 min 16mm
  • Less (1973) 1 sec 16mm
  • Autumnal Equinox (Solariumagelani) (1974) 27 min 16mm
  • Banner (1974) 40 sec 16mm
  • INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT (1974) 61:30 min 16mm
  • Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys: # 1) (1974) 3:30 min 16mm
  • SOLARIUMAGELANI (1974) 92 min 16mm
  • Straits of Magellan (1974) 51:15 min 16mm
  • Summer Solstice (1974) 32 min 16mm
  • Winter Solstice (1974) 33 min 16mm
  • Drum (1975) 20 sec 16mm
  • Pas de Trois (1975) 4 min 16mm
  • For Georgia O'Keeffe (1976) 3:30 min 16mm
  • Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate (1976) 54 min 16mm
  • "Magellan: Drafts and Fragments"
  • "More Than Meets The Eye"
  • "Otherwise Unexplained Fires"
  • A and B in Ontario (1984) (with Joyce Wieland )

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
  • Bruce Jenkins (Ed.); On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters. The Writings of Hollis Frampton . The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., London 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-06276-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frampton, Hollis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wooster (Ohio) , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1984
Place of death New York City