Goldstar wrote:"Recollections/Recreations" is in my hand right now.
I've got that book too! It's kind of a rare one so if you own it
do hold on to it.
Can't believe i forgot to mention that Frampton was also a photographer. You should definitely try to see
(nostalgia) if you ever get the chance because it directly relates to his experiences working in that medium.
Hollis was a theorist too. He wrote a very astute (though unfortunately long-OOP) book called
Circles of Confusion which is easily among the best writing on film I've ever had the pleasure of coming across. It sometimes gets very analytical. He attempts to break down what exactly film is, what the process of watching a film is really, ideally, about. Usually that sort of thing strikes me as tedious-to-a-fault but he manages to keep things lively and informative.
In general that's what I enjoy about his films: they're unapologetically intelligent but also playful and endearing. He lead kind of an odd life, which probably has something to do with this. He worked, for instance, as a projectionist in a porno theater and traveled around for a while living in his car.
I agree with Mark that Criterion (or
somebody) should get the ball rolling and make these and other experimental classics available for home viewing. (I guess one of the reasons, though, why the Brakhage set was released so swiftly was that it was done with his direct co-operation. Perhaps the reason a lot of great experimental movies are burried in academia and so on is the artists' staunch insistence that their work be seen on its original format. Either that or some sort of knee-jerk aversion to commodicification, having to deal with the industry, etc.)
