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Lemon
1969 ‧ Short Film ‧ 0h 7m
Initial release: 1969
Initial DVD release: April 10, 2012 (USA)

"Hollis Frampton was born in Ohio, United States, on March 11, 1936, towards the end of the Machine Age. Educated (that is, programmed: taught table manners, the use of the semicolon, and so forth) in Ohio and Massachusetts. The process resulted in satisfaction for no one. Studied (sat around on the lawn at St. Elizabeths) with Ezra Pound, 1957-58. That study is far from concluded. Moved to New York in March, 1958, lived and worked there more than a decade. People I met there composed the faculty of a phantasmal 'graduate school'. Began to make still photographs at the end of 1958. Nothing much came of it. First fumblings with cinema began in the Fall of 1962; the first films I will publicly admit to making came in early 1966. Worked, for years, as a film laboratory technician. More recently, Hunter College and the Cooper Union have been hospitable. Moved to Eaton, New York in mid-1970, where I now live (a process enriched and presumably, prolonged, by the location) and work...

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I went to the bank and asked about my lemon. The teller said he had a lemon just like mine. I asked if I could see the lemon, if it was really just like my lemon. I didn't think it was possible...

Time doesn't exist.
Time doesn't exist.

I waited till seven and I went home with the bank teller. We got on the bus because he didn't have a car that he drives to work—he has a car, but he doesn't drive it to work. He takes the bus.

Time doesn't exist.
Time doesn't exist.

We got into his home he lives in Coral Gables. He opened the door and turned on the light to his home in Coral Gables. On the table in the center of the room was a lemon. On the center of the table in the center of the world in the center of the world of the—

Time doesn't exist.
Time doesn't exist.

Time!
Time!
Time...

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from Hamnet's Br​æ​d, released February 7, 2015

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