Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker and pioneer of digital art. He is known for the broad and restless intelligence in his films. In addition to being an important experimental filmmaker, he was also an accomplished photographer and writer, and in the 1970s made significant contributions to the emerging field of computer science. He is considered one of the pioneers of structuralism, an influential style that uses the basic elements of cinematic language to create works that investigate film form at the expense of traditional narrative content. Along with Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage, he is one of the major avant-garde filmmakers from the New York of the 1960s.
