
Hapax Legomena VI: Remote Control
1972

Representation Score
Minimal
1972
Director
Hollis Frampton
Runtime
11 minutes
Average Rating
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Hollis Frampton’s experimental work focuses on the structure and form of cinema rather than storytelling. Because it prioritizes formalist concerns, it lacks the characters and dialogue needed to evaluate standard identity-based representation. The film's strength lies in its intellectual disruption of the medium. By emphasizing the viewer's subjective experience, it challenges passive consumption of traditional cinema. However, this abstraction results in a lack of symbols for reflecting multiple aspects of identity. The work does not engage with the lived experiences of diverse identities or specific bodies.
Category Breakdown
The film's abstract, structuralist nature means there are no interpersonal relationships or gender identities depicted. There is no evidence of queer narratives or critiques of the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.
By avoiding traditional gender hierarchies and characterization, the film does not engage with masculine or feminine roles. Without gendered subjects, there is no basis for evaluating gender representation.
Using a non-representational visual language, the film does not depict human subjects. Therefore, there is no basis for evaluating racial diversity or ethnic ability to act.
The film rejects traditional Western storytelling structures like linear plots or hero's journeys. It emphasizes a subjective experience that deconstructs the authority of the creator.
There are no characters depicted with visible or invisible disabilities. The focus remains on the sensory experience of the medium rather than lived experiences of specific bodies.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising.” – HF

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