Surface Tension
Stills
About
"The influence of minimal art (rather the aesthetic of minimal art) on the avant-garde cinema is very great. Most of the important young filmmakers, especially on the East Coast, might be considered minimalists. Certainly Hollis Frampton's SURFACE TENSION is from that milieu. The film itself has three parts: a comic static shot emphasizing the passage of time; a fast motion tour through a city with fractured German commentary; and a slow seascape with fish floating midscreen. In this last section phrases translated from the German commentary are printed over the image. Of all the films seen in this festival, SURFACE TENSION is technically and spiritually the newest." - P. Adams Sitney, Program note, Maryland, 1969.
Films
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Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Manual of Arms
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 17 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
States
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 17 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimation
Heterodyne
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 7 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Maxwell's Demon
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, sound, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
Process Red
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 3.3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Snowblind
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 5.3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Artificial Light
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Carrots and Peas
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, sound, 5.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lemon
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 7.3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimation
Palindrome
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 22 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Prince Ruperts Drops
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 7 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Works and Days
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Zorns Lemma
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, sound, 60 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Traveling Matte (Hapax Legomena IV)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 33.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Critical Mass (Hapax Legomena III)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, sound, 25.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Public Domain
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 14 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Remote Control (Hapax Legomena VI)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 29 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Yellow Springs (Magellan: Vanishing Point #1)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 5.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Special Effects (Hapax Legomena VII)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, sound, 10.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Tiger Balm (Memoranda Magelani #1)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Poetic Justice (Hapax Legomena II)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 31 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Ordinary Matter (Hapax Legomena V)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, sound on separate reel(s), 36 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Apparatus Sum (Studies For Magellan #1)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 2.3 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Hapax Legomena (Complete) (See Separate Prints)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, sound on separate reel(s), 202 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Less
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, silent, 1 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena I)
Hollis Frampton16mm, black and white, sound, 36 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Drafts & Fragments Straits of Magellan
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 51.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys: #1)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Summer Solstice (Solariumagelani)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 32 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Winter Solstice (Solariumagelani)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 33 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit (Was Vernal Equinox) 2 Reels
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 61.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Autumnal Equinox (Solariumagelani)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 27 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Pas De Trois
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 4.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
For Georgia O'Keeffe
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Green Gate, The (Magellan at the Gates of Death Part II)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 52.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Not The First Time
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Otherwise Unexplained Fires
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 13.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Procession
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 2.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
Quaternion
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Red Gate, The (Magellan at the Gates of Death Part I)
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 52 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
Mindfall I & VII (Pts I, VI Birth of Magellan: Mindfall Completed
Hollis Frampton16mm, sound, 36 min - Read MoreExperimental
Matrix
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 27.45 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Gloria!
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
More Than Meets The Eye
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, silent, 7.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Cadenzas I & XIV (Completed Pts The Birth of Magellan:14 Cadenzas
Hollis Frampton16mm, color, sound, 11.25 minRental format: 16mm