Henry Hills Movies

  • 2006
    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    5.42006HD

    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

    Notes on Marie Menken
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    12012HD

    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 1981
    Kino Da!

    Kino Da!

    Kino Da!

    01981HD

    Kino Da! (1981) is a portrait of North Beach Communist cafe poet & gentle comrade, Jack Hirschman, editor of the “Artaud Anthology”...

    Kino Da!
  • 1977
    Porter Springs 3

    Porter Springs 3

    Porter Springs 3

    01977HD

    My first film (San Francisco, 1975) was Porter Springs, an exalted home movie shot on summer vacation in the North Georgia mountains at a place I...

    Porter Springs 3
  • 1982
    Radio Adios

    Radio Adios

    Radio Adios

    01982HD

    A superabundance of useless information effectively subdues freedom of speech. Condense and survive!

    Radio Adios
  • 1991
    Goa Lawah

    Goa Lawah

    Goa Lawah

    01991HD

    Goa Lawah is a sacred bat cave on the east coast of Bali. Actual footage.

    Goa Lawah
  • 2019
    The Tree

    The Tree

    The Tree

    02019HD

    The tree here is an ancient American Elm standing in Tompkins Square Park in New York. It’s named 'The Hare Krishna Tree' because an Indian...

    The Tree
  • 1999
    Porter Springs 4

    Porter Springs 4

    Porter Springs 4

    01999HD

    A “remake” of my first film, Porter Springs 4 (1999) is composed from footage shot over 20 years (reversal, negative, 8 mm, super-8, 8mm...

    Porter Springs 4
  • 2008
    Failed States

    Failed States

    Failed States

    02008HD

    Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.

    Failed States
  • 2021
    Social Skills

    Social Skills

    Social Skills

    42021HD

    Henry Hills is among the film artists who, like filmmaker Abigail Child, marries frenetically fast image montage with split-second music and sound...

    Social Skills
  • 2009
    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    02009HD

    An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)
  • 1981
    Plagiarism

    Plagiarism

    Plagiarism

    01981HD

    A raw documentary of New York "language poets" in their milieu.

    Plagiarism
  • 1979
    North Beach 2

    North Beach 2

    North Beach 2

    01979HD

    A re-edited version of NORTH BEACH; more frenetic, more out there, more '80s. "It is interesting to note that this tendency toward design, so...

    North Beach 2