Hollis Frampton grew up in Cleveland from the age of ten, and five years later, he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he was accepted on full scholarship.
14 Facts About Hollis Frampton
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Hollis Frampton failed his final History exam on a bet that he could pass without ever reading the textbook.
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In 1956, Hollis Frampton began correspondence with Ezra Pound after becoming interested in the literary generation of the 1880s.
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Hollis Frampton renewed his friendships with Andre and Stella, sharing an apartment first with the two of them and then with Andre only.
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In 1973, Hollis Frampton joined the faculty of the University of Buffalo.
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Hollis Frampton later married Marion Faller, a photographer whom he had met and began living with in early 1971.
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Hollis Frampton died from lung cancer at his Buffalo residence on March 30,1984, at the age of 48.
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Hollis Frampton based a lot of his early films on concepts.
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Hollis Frampton was seen as a structural filmmaker, working in a style that focused on the nature of film itself.
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Hollis Frampton's final major film project was a monumental project called Magellan, named after the explorer who first circumnavigated the world.
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The last few years of his life, Hollis Frampton taught at SUNY Buffalo, writing, working on Magellan and ongoing photographic projects with fellow artist and wife Marion Faller, and investigating the relationship between computers and art.
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Hollis Frampton did some initial work with video and sound reproducing with an IMSAI 8080 computer.
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Much of Hollis Frampton's work was released by the Criterion Collection on April 26,2012, as special edition Blu-ray Disc and DVD.
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Hollis Frampton's archive is maintained by Anthology Film Archives and the Harvard Film Archive.