Review of Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) (1971) by Reece L — 31 Oct 2015

Frampton's (nostalgia) centers around just that; nostalgia. Frampton looks back at his early artistic photographs and his early memories of life, burning each photograph he describes as a form emotional catharsis and as a way of providing a physical representation of the ways in which memories fade over time while small details and feelings remain.

It's insanely sweet, melancholic, and more than a little sad to watch someone mull over the remnants of their past life and burn them, but the effect is undeniably powerful, and the film as a whole earns its reputation as a classic of experimental cinema with this emotional resonance and universal form of conveyance.