Gloria (1979) dir. Hollis Frampton 1080p

In GLORIA Frampton juxtaposes nineteenthcentury 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 nineteenthcentury figure, Framptons maternal grandmother, and to a twentiethcentury 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.