The object depicted in the second image marks an independent trajectory through time and space. In nostalgia, frampton is clearly working with the experience of cinematic temporality. After making mostly short films in the 60s, he spent several years on the sevenpart hapax legomena which includes his most famous film nostalgia, then spent the last decade of his life working. The best movies directed by hollis frampton flickchart. Frampton burning slowly his an nostalgia black and white photograph who his taken on a hot plate. It is a picture we took in a railway station in thailand of a lamp in the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron a polyhedron that is emblematic of a certain mathematical perfection in the geometric imagination and a form that raphael zarka has been documenting and sometimes replicating in various ways. Catalogue nostalgia hapax legomena i about nostlgia. Nostalgia 0 hours and 36 minutes movie 2012 frampton burning slowly his an nostalgia black and white photograph who his taken on a hot plate. Fandango fanalert sign up for a fanalert and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing nostalgia hapax legomena i near you. Hollis framptons nostalgia kurt ralske sva mfa art criticism and. By the end of his career, he had completed close to one hundred films. Nostalgia hapax legomena i hollis frampton the filmmakers. This broader sampling, while far from complete, offers a sense of the universe of ideas.
In nostalgia the time it takes for a photograph to burn and thus confirm its twodimensionality. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. An experimental film by hollis frampton documenting a man talking while a telephone rings, a tour of new york, and a goldfish. A man and woman in conversation, arguing till roistering and we see gestures. Experimental cinema news and resources on experimental films. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a. Hollis frampton, notes on composing in film, october spring 1976. Its often noted that he never finished his magnum opus, the. Hollis frampton died young in 1984, but his achievements in two decades of filmmaking place him in the top rank of american avantgardists. Nostalgia hapax legomena i hollis frampton the film. Besides 60 or so surviving films, frampton, who had a way with words. His films are beloved by academics for their didactic.
Nostalgia on imdb official site of hollis frampton criterion collection essay. Overview of nostalgia, 1971, directed by hollis frampton, with at turner classic movies. By the end of his career, he had completed close to one hundred films including the. The major structural strategy is a disjunction between.