Name: Artificial Light
Director: Hollis Frampton
Released: 1969-12-31
Duration: 25 min
Cast: Lee Lozano

Artificial Light (1969)

No Language 25m

About Artificial Light Movie

Artificial Light, released in 1969, is a Movie from director Hollis Frampton. Featuring Lee Lozano. 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

Movie Details

Release Date31 Dec 1969

LanguageNo Language

Runtime25m

StatusReleased

DirectorHollis Frampton

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