Gary Hill Movies
- 1984
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...
- 1979
Objects with Destinations
Objects with Destinations01979HD
Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of...
- 1979
Picture Story
Picture Story01979HD
“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...
- 1986
URA ARU
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Recorded on location in Japan, this work was inspired by the notion of “acoustic palindromes,” aural versions of written palindromes,...
- 1966
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...
- 1980
Project Tesla
Project Tesla01980HD
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...
- 1970
Pacifier
Pacifier01970HD
- 2000
Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from
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DVD insert of monograph Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View containing a compilation of Hill's performance art.
- 1977
Bits
Bits01977HD
Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...
- 1977
Bits
Bits01977HD
Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...
- 1976
Mesh
Mesh01976HD
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...
- 1974
Rock City Road
Rock City Road01974HD
Recorded in Woodstock, New York, Rock City Road incorporates multiple levels of rescanned images of walking on different surfaces, including pavement...
- 1990
Solstice d’Hiver
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Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded...
- 2003
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...
- 1980
Commentary
Commentary01980HD
“Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in...
- 1979
Equal Time
Equal Time01979HD
In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a...
- 1981
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...
- 1978
Mouthpiece
Mouthpiece01978HD
Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage...
- 1976
Mirror Road
Mirror Road01976HD
In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous...
- 1988
Incidence of Catastrophe
Incidence of Catastrophe01988HD
In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...