Gloria!

In “Gloria!” Frampton juxtaposes 19th-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a videographic display of textual material. These two formal components (the film and the texts) in turn relate to a 19th-century figure, Hollis’ maternal grandmother, and to a 20th-century one, Frampton himself. In attempting to recapture their relationship, “Gloria!” becomes a somewhat comic, often touching meditation on death, memory, and the power of image, music, and text to resurrect that past.