The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton.
Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and theorists
of his time and in his navigation of artistic media and discourses he anticipated the
multimedia boundary blurring of today's visual culture. Indeed his photography continues to be
exhibited and a digital edition of his films was issued by the Criterion Collection. This book
offers the first collection of critical writings on Frampton's work. It complements On the
Camera Arts and Consecutive Matter published in the MIT Press's Writing Art series which
collected Frampton's own writings. October was as central to Frampton as he was to it. He was
both a frequent contributor-appearing in the first issue in 1976-and a frequent subject of
contributions by others. Some of these important and incisive writings on Frampton's work are
reprinted here. The essays collected in this volume consider Frampton's photographic practice
which continued even after he turned to film survey his film work from the 1960s to the late
1970s and explore Frampton's grounding in poetics and language. Two essays by the late Annette
Michelson one of the twentieth century's most influential writers on experimental film place
Frampton in relation to film and art history. Contributors George Derk Ken Eisenstein Hollis
Frampton Peter Gidal Barry Goldensohn Brian Henderson Bruce Jenkins Annette Michelson
Christopher Phillips Melissa Ragona Allen S. Weiss Federico Windhausen Lisa Zaher Michael
Zryd
