Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena Program II

Traveling Matte -Hapax Legomena IV -Traveling Matte is the pivot upon which the whole of Hapax Legomena turns. ? Hollis Frampton This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death ? the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker's hand, wherein others only attempt to read the future. ? Stan Brakhage Ordinary Matter - Hapax Legomena V - A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a monument to connection), Stonehenge (a monument to the intercourse between consciousness and LIGHT)? visiting along the way diverse meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and ending in the remembered cornfields of my childhood. ? Hollis Frampton Remote Control - Hapax Legomena VI - ?[In Remote Control], the images speed up to the point where every successive frame is different from every previous frame, so that if there is an image in it, it's a kind of inner voice within the images, as sometimes music will have many voices that can be written out on the paper, and then in the listening the real shape of the music is to be found in the voice that is generated among them? It was shot in a single evening, off the tube, right off the ordinary TV set, in the course of an evening.? Hollis Frampton Special Effects - Hapax Legomena VII - I wanted to affirm and honor the film frame itself. Because so much of what we know now, so much of our experience is something that comes to us through that frame. It seems to be a kind of synonym for what we are conscious of. I have only seen the pyramids of Egypt within that frame. I have only seen ? endless things ? most of what I believe I have e