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Released
1969 · FILM

Artificial Light

Directed by
Runtime
25 min
Short

Synopsis

*Artificial Light* presents twenty variations of a single filmic phrase, each iteration featuring the same sequence: a series of portrait shots capturing a group of young New York artists as they talk, drink wine, laugh, and smoke in an informal setting. The individual portraits transition into one another with a smooth, almost academic precision through lap dissolves, culminating in two shots of the entire group and ending with a dolly shot into an image of the moon. A significant gap exists between the phrase itself and its formal variations, a divide that is both intellectual and structural. Frampton is drawn to bold theoretical propositions; his films consistently take the form of logical structures. — P. Adams Sitney, *Film Culture Reader*

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