Hollis Frampton

Hollis Frampton is known for the broad and restless intelligence he brought to the films he made beginning in the early 60s until his death in 1984 In addition to being an important experimental filmmaker he was also an accomplished photographer and writer and in the 1970s made significant contributions to the emerging field of computer science He is considered one of the pioneers of what has come to be termed structuralism an influential style of experimental filmmaking that uses the basic elements of cinematic language to create works that investigate film form at the expense of traditional narrative content Along with Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage he is one of the major figures to emerge from the New York avantgarde film community of the 1960s