Synopsis
Probably the most widely seen of Hollis Frampton's films, Nostalgia documents Frampton's move from photography to film through an elaborately witty joke on autobiography, identity, and memory. The film presents a succession of his photographs from the '60s, one after another. The photographs have been placed on a hotplate, and as each one burns to a crisp, a narrator describes the image that came before it. The viewer has to rely on his or her memory of the image that was just burned while listening to...more