Gary Hill Movies

  • 1977
    Bathing

    Bathing

    Bathing

    01977HD

    In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...

    Bathing
  • 1966
    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    5.91966HD

    The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes...

    Skaterdater
  • 1974
    Air Raid

    Air Raid

    Air Raid

    01974HD

    The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image. This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images...

    Air Raid
  • 1980
    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    01980HD

    This rarely screened film was used to raise funds for the making of Energy and How to Get It. High-energy physicist Robert Golka was granted a lease...

    Project Tesla
  • 1979
    Resolution

    Resolution

    Resolution

    01979HD

    A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms...

    Resolution
  • 1977
    Bits

    Bits

    Bits

    01977HD

    Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...

    Bits
  • 1978
    Full Circle

    Full Circle

    Full Circle

    01978HD

    “The image plane is divided into three sections. In the lower half, a close-up of two hands form a circle out of a metal rod. The upper half of...

    Full Circle
  • 1979
    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    01979HD

    “A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...

    Picture Story
  • 1988
    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    01988HD

    In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...

    Incidence of Catastrophe
  • 1984
    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    01984HD

    This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)
  • 1978
    Sums & Differences

    Sums & Differences

    Sums & Differences

    01978HD

    The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an...

    Sums & Differences
  • 1989
    Site/Recite (a prologue)

    Site/Recite (a prologue)

    Site/Recite (a prologue)

    01989HD

    With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled...

    Site/Recite (a prologue)
  • 2000
    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    02000HD

    DVD insert of monograph Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View containing a compilation of Hill's performance art.

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from
  • 1977
    Bits

    Bits

    Bits

    01977HD

    Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...

    Bits
  • 1988
    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

    01988HD

    Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The...

    Disturbance (among the jars)
  • 1978
    Elements

    Elements

    Elements

    01978HD

    One of the earlier works Hill produced on the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, Elements combines abstract “landscapes” with fragmented...

    Elements
  • 2001
    Goats & Sheep

    Goats & Sheep

    Goats & Sheep

    02001HD

    Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...

    Goats & Sheep
  • 1979
    Objects with Destinations

    Objects with Destinations

    Objects with Destinations

    01979HD

    Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of...

    Objects with Destinations
  • 1986
    URA ARU

    URA ARU

    URA ARU

    01986HD

    Recorded on location in Japan, this work was inspired by the notion of “acoustic palindromes,” aural versions of written palindromes,...

    URA ARU
  • 2003
    Blind Spot

    Blind Spot

    Blind Spot

    02003HD

    Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the...

    Blind Spot