Gary Hill Movies

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device...

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

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

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

In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a...

Recorded in Woodstock, New York, Rock City Road incorporates multiple levels of rescanned images of walking on different surfaces, including pavement...

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

This piece was originally planned by the artist as a reading for the Viewpoint series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “It was an...

“In 1979-80, I was teaching in the Media Studies Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, filling in for Woody and Steina...

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

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

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...

“Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in...

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

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

Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown,...

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

Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded...

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

The associative stream of images and sounds treats the word as an abstract structure. Spoken and written text flows from image to image, morphing...