Gary Hill Movies

“I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many...

Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic,...

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

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

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

Silent or with minimal sound, Hill's early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura...

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

The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance" and...

A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the...

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

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

The work’s images appear as visualizations of electronically generated sounds. Initially, small pulsating pixel structures occasionally appear...

A fixed color camera is slightly defocused on the wire mesh of a window screen. Outside the window the leaves of trees are moving with the wind. The...

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...

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

This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half....

In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous...

Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...

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

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