Artificial Light
1969, English. Directed by Hollis Frampton.
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
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- 0h 25m
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- English
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- 31 December 1969
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Who directed Artificial Light?
Artificial Light (1969) was directed by Hollis Frampton and stars Lee Lozano.