Gary Hill Movies

  • 1984
    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

    01984HD

    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...

    Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)
  • 1979
    Objects with Destinations

    Objects with Destinations

    Objects with Destinations

    01979HD

    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
  • 1979
    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    01979HD

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

    Picture Story
  • 1986
    URA ARU

    URA ARU

    URA ARU

    01986HD

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

    URA ARU
  • 1966
    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    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...

    Skaterdater
  • 1980
    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    Project Tesla

    01980HD

    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...

    Project Tesla
  • 1970
    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    01970HD

    Pacifier
  • 2000
    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from

    02000HD

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

    Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from
  • 1977
    Bits

    Bits

    Bits

    01977HD

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

    Bits
  • 1977
    Bits

    Bits

    Bits

    01977HD

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

    Bits
  • 1976
    Mesh

    Mesh

    Mesh

    01976HD

    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...

    Mesh
  • 1974
    Rock City Road

    Rock City Road

    Rock City Road

    01974HD

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

    Rock City Road
  • 1990
    Solstice d’Hiver

    Solstice d’Hiver

    Solstice d’Hiver

    01990HD

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

    Solstice d’Hiver
  • 2003
    Blind Spot

    Blind Spot

    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...

    Blind Spot
  • 1980
    Commentary

    Commentary

    Commentary

    01980HD

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

    Commentary
  • 1979
    Equal Time

    Equal Time

    Equal Time

    01979HD

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

    Equal Time
  • 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
  • 1978
    Mouthpiece

    Mouthpiece

    Mouthpiece

    01978HD

    Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage...

    Mouthpiece
  • 1976
    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    01976HD

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

    Mirror Road
  • 1988
    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    01988HD

    In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...

    Incidence of Catastrophe