Gary Hill Movies

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

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

Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black...

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...

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

The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and...

“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...

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

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

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

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...

“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...

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

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

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...

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....

“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...

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

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...