jack, andy, and hollis

First of all, these films were not hard to watch. For hard to watch, please refer to Anticipation of the Night and Dog Star Man. Sure, the images in Blow Job and (nostalgia) were pretty repetitive and dragged-out. I was able to find interest in them because Blow Job gave an interesting perspective and (nostalgia) was dynamic in its variation of burning photograms. In all honesty, how often do you watch the process of orgasmic expression and how often are you tricked into struggling to make sense of an image that is slowly decaying? I think they were interesting images in film that would not be normally accessible elsewhere. Flaming Creatures was uncomfortable to watch, but I respect its merit as a film exploring deviant sexuality and testing Hollywood as an anti-film.

Frampton's film interesting technique of referencing the theme of nostalgia (as Seannie pointed out) really pays off at the end. He conditions the viewer to expect that the next photograph shown will match the description that he voices over the current one. During the last (unknown the viewer) he cleverly uses this conditioning to trick the viewr. His description (of what the viewer assumes will be the next image) is really exciting and as the viewer really begins to look forward to seeing the next image, the film ends. This is very very entertaining to me and puts the "nostalgic" theme into good use - a sort of avant-garde within its use.