Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (1972)

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Audience Score
52
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NR 32 minFeb 16th, 1972Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series PosterPart of Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series
Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of paper compose a script that provides handwritten, frame-by-frame instructions for a film that unfolds only in the mind of the viewer.
DirectorHollis Frampton

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:February 16th, 1972
Original Language:English

Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series

Hapax Legomena (1971-1972), whose title Frampton translated as “things said once,” turned out, unfortunately, to be a hapax legomenon within Frampton’s filmography, as it is the only multi-part, interlocking (but separable), set of films that he completed