Gloria! (1979)

Género : Documental

Tiempo de ejecución : 10M

Director : Hollis Frampton

Sinopsis

In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a videographic display of textual material. These two formal components (the film and the texts) in turn relate to a nineteenth-century figure, Frampton's maternal grandmother, and to a twentieth-century one, her grandson (filmmaker Frampton himself). In attempting to recapture their relationship, GLORIA! becomes a somewhat comic, often touching meditation on death, on memory and on the power of image, music and text to resurrect the past.

Actores

Tripulaciones

Hollis Frampton
Hollis Frampton
Director

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