Gary Hill Movies
- 1977
Bathing
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In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...
- 1966
Skaterdater
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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...
- 1974
Air Raid
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The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image. This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images...
- 1980
Project Tesla
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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...
- 1979
Resolution
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A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms...
- 1977
Bits
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Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...
- 1978
Full Circle
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“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...
- 1979
Picture Story
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“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...
- 1988
Incidence of Catastrophe
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In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...
- 1984
Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)
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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...
- 1978
Sums & Differences
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The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an...
- 1989
Site/Recite (a prologue)
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With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled...
- 2000
Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from
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DVD insert of monograph Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View containing a compilation of Hill's performance art.
- 1977
Bits
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Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...
- 1988
Disturbance (among the jars)
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Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The...
- 1978
Elements
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One of the earlier works Hill produced on the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, Elements combines abstract “landscapes” with fragmented...
- 2001
Goats & Sheep
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Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...
- 1979
Objects with Destinations
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Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of...
- 1986
URA ARU
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Recorded on location in Japan, this work was inspired by the notion of “acoustic palindromes,” aural versions of written palindromes,...
- 2003
Blind Spot
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Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the...