Gloria! (1979)

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.

Released Dec. 31, 1979 10 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short

Keywords: tmdb.hollis-frampton, imdb.text-on-screen, imdb.wake, imdb.irish, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.funeral, imdb.dance + 3 more, imdb.avant-garde-short, imdb.experimental-short, aspectratio.1-33-1