Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Hollis Frampton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American filmmaker Hollis Frampton.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Hollis William Frampton, Jr. 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), as well as his anthology book, Circles of Confusion: Film, Photography, Video: Texts, 1968-1980 (1983).

American - Filmmaker | March 11, 1936 - March 30, 1984

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Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

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If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

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A film is a machine made of images

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A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

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When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

Hollis Frampton

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

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