Artificial Light (1969)

ALL 12/31/1969 (en) 25 Min
  • Release
    12/31/1969
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Artificial Light
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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

  1. Hollis Frampton

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Artificial Light (1969) 25 Min

ALL 12/31/1969 (en)
  • Release 12/31/1969
  • Production
  • Original title Artificial Light
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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

  1. Hollis Frampton

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer