Hollis Frampton

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 11, 1936 (89 years old)
Death date
Mar 30, 1984

Hollis Frampton

Known For

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
2h 29m
Movie 1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Home Movies 1971-81
1h 50m
Movie 1985

Home Movies 1971-81

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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 and Stan Brakhage, he is one of the major figures to emerge from the New York avant-garde film community of the 1960s.

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