Gloria!(1979)

Gloria! Synopsis

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.

Gloria! (1979) is a documentary film directed by Hollis Frampton, released on December 31, 1979 with a runtime of 10m. Viewers rate it 4.9 out of 10 across 19 ratings.