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Artificial Light (1969)
Directed by Hollis Frampton
Documentary · 25m
Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally. The individual portrait-shots follow each other with almost academic smoothness in lap-dissolves ending in two shots of the entire group followed by a dolly shot into a picture of the moon... There is a chasm between the phrase and its formal inflections. That chasm is intellectual as well as formal. Frampton loves an outrageous hypothesis; his films, all of them, take the shape of logical formulae. -- P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture Reader
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hollis Frampton
Details
- Release date
- 1969-12-31
- Runtime
- 25m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America