Frampton and His Double
Hollis Frampton is a polymorphic artist whose work in experimental film stands as a key contribution to 20th-century American avant-garde history. Here, a brief glimpse into his practice reveals a cinema often pigeonholed as structural, yet imbued with a uniquely playful dimension.
Presented by Sylvano Santini, professor in the Department of Literary Studies at UQAM
Frampton slowly burns personal black-and-white photographs on a stovetop burner while Michael Snow’s voice narrates the story behind each one.
A man and a woman are arguing so heatedly that the picture and sound break up.
A and B in Ontario was completed 18 years after the original material was shot. After Frampton's death, the film was assembled by Wieland into a cinematic dialogue in which the collaborators (in the spirit of the 1960s) shoot each other with cameras. (CFMDC)
Hollis Frampton
Hollis Frampton was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art. He was best known for his innovative and non-linear structural films that defined the movement, including Lemon (1969), Zorns Lemma (1970), and Hapax Legomena (1971–1972).
Photo: Robert Del Tredici | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
