Gary Hill Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 1978
Mouthpiece
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Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage...
- 2004
Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image
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In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary...
- 1980
Project Tesla
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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
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- 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...
- 1988
Incidence of Catastrophe
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In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...
- 1985
Tale Enclosure
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Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic,...
- 1978
Windows
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Silent or with minimal sound, Hill's early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura...
- 2011
The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment
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The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance" and...
- 1977
Bathing
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In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...
- 1980
Around & About
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“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...
- 1979
Picture Story
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“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...
- 1977
Electronic Linguistic
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The work’s images appear as visualizations of electronically generated sounds. Initially, small pulsating pixel structures occasionally appear...
- 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...
- 1978
Primary
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The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and...
- 2008
Observaciones Sobre los Colores
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Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...
- 1974
Rock City Road
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Recorded in Woodstock, New York, Rock City Road incorporates multiple levels of rescanned images of walking on different surfaces, including pavement...
- 1977
Bits
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Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...