Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

Name: Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
Released: 1972
Duration: 31 min

1972

54%

Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of paper compose a script that provides handwritten, frame-by-frame instructions for a film that unfolds only in the mind of the viewer.

Director

Hollis Frampton

Part of: Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series

Hapax Legomena (1971-1972), whose title Frampton translated as “things said once,” turned out, unfortunately, to be a hapax legomenon within Frampton’s filmography, as it is the only multi-part, interlocking (but separable), set of films that he completed

Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

Director

Hollis Frampton

Part of: Hapax Legomena 7-Part Series

Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice

Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass