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Manual of Arms

1966 · 17 min
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary activities.

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Year 1966
Country United States of America
Director Hollis Frampton
Runtime 17 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (18 votes)

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Frampton constructs a cinematic etude that relies on the minimalism of action and the discipline of the frame. It explores the boundary between documentary recording and staging, where the very duration of the gaze transforms the mundane into the meaningful.

What lingers after viewing is a meditative engagement with the pure form of the film portrait, where content yields to the contemplation of seeing itself. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Hollis Frampton

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