Hapax Legomena V Ordinary Matter (1972)

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Audience Score
63
Hapax Legomena V Ordinary Matter
NR 36 minSep 12th, 1972Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series PosterPart of Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series
A vision of a journey during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister a monument to enclosure Brooklyn Bridge a monument to connection Stonehenge a monument to the intercourse between consciousness and LIGHT visiting along the way diverse meadows barns waters where I now live and ending in the remembered cornfields of my childhood The soundtrack annexes as mantram the WadeGiles syllabary of the Chinese language HF
DirectorHollis Frampton

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:September 12th, 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