荷利斯•法朗普顿（Hollis Frampton）的《（怀旧）》[（nostalgia），1971]。这部影片只有十二个镜头；每个镜头中，一张放置于炎热碟子上的照片，渐渐被烧成灰尽。全片单镜拍摄的记录，迫使我们看着火焰和残屑的影像。声轨部分也是由十二个小段所组成，而在每一个单元中，旁白者谈论着他对每一张照片的回忆。但是叙述的每一部分，所描述的并非银幕上的照片，而是下一张出现的照片。观众想像着下一张照片会是什么样子，然而他们却无法直接对照有关这张照片的描述。因为照片出现的时候，口头的描述也过去了。这个怀旧的构想，亦即对于一段无法再次掌有过去的渴望，也就在影片的结构之中，显现出来。

“This film metaphors an entire human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker’s hand, wherein others only attempt to read the future.” – Stan Brakhage

A man and a woman have been living together for six months. After disappearing for two days, the man returns and acts as if nothing has happened, refusing to say where he was.

“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising.” – HF

“A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space.” – HF

Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of paper compose a script that provides handwritten, frame-by-frame instructions for a film that unfolds only in the mind of the viewer.

"A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a monument to connection), Stonehenge (a monument to the intercourse between consciousness and LIGHT)... visiting along the way diverse meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and ending in the remembered cornfields of my childhood. The soundtrack annexes, as mantram, the Wade-Giles syllabary of the Chinese language." (H.F.)