Who is Hollis Frampton you ask? Well Hollis Frampton was a:

photographer, theoretician, philosopher and, above all, filmmaker – (and) is one of the towering figures of American avant-garde cinema. Possessed of a frighteningly prodigious and wide-ranging intellect – he was a voracious reader from childhood, and his films abound with evidence of his fascination with linguistics, science, mathematics and philosophy – combined with a witty and mischievous attraction to puzzles and game-playing, Frampton was active as a filmmaker for only a decade-and-a-half (his career cut tragically short by his death from cancer in 1984). But in that brief time he created a breathtakingly ambitious body of work, whose range and inventiveness are unsurpassed. [Anthology Film Archives]

And clearly that is someone whose birthday is worth mentioning.

So please takepart to help Stand Up 2 Cancer, so we don’t lose anymore amazing people like Hollis and also give a watch to one of his films, entitled Gloria!