Gary Hill Movies

  • 1980
    Black/White/Text

    Black/White/Text

    Black/White/Text

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

    Black/White/Text
  • 1979
    Objects with Destinations

    Objects with Destinations

    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...

    Objects with Destinations
  • 1978
    Sums & Differences

    Sums & Differences

    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...

    Sums & Differences
  • 1986
    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

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    “The beginning of a remake of an earlier work [Soundings, 1979] in which I wanted to extend the reflexivity of each text in relation to the...

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)
  • 1981
    Videograms

    Videograms

    Videograms

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    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...

    Videograms
  • 1974
    Air Raid

    Air Raid

    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...

    Air Raid