Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
- IMDb link: 0130908
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (784 votes)
- Genres: Short
- Director: Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow
- Release date: 21 Jan 1971
- Release year: 1971
- Runtime: 36 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: national film registry, experimental short, independent short, photograph, photography, avant garde short, metronome, narration, hot plate, burning a photograph
Plot:
Thirteen different black-and-white photographs are laid down on a hotplate, one by one. As each slowly burn and melt up one by one, stories and memories of the different subject are provided by narration, written in first-person to imply the filmmaker is speaking. Subjects include a man on a bed, a smoking man, a shot through a window, etc.