Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice(1972)

Name: Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
Director: Hollis Frampton
Released: 1972-02-16
Rating: 5.045

02/16/1972 (US)Romance, Documentary0h 32m

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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.

Hollis Frampton

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Part of the 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