Gloria! (1979)

Name: Gloria!
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-02-21
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 49

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NR 10 minDec 31st, 1979Documentary

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.

DirectorHollis Frampton

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