Gary Hill Movies

  • 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
  • 2004
    Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

    Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

    Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

    02004HD

    In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary...

    Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image
  • 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
  • 1979
    Soundings

    Soundings

    Soundings

    01979HD

    Two color video cameras, two microphones, Dave Jones prototype modules (input amplifiers, variable soft/hard keyers, output amplifier,...

    Soundings
  • 2008
    Figuring Grounds

    Figuring Grounds

    Figuring Grounds

    02008HD

    Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown,...

    Figuring Grounds
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    5.91966HD

    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
  • 1983
    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    01983HD

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

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)
  • 1978
    Primary

    Primary

    Primary

    01978HD

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

    Primary
  • 1988
    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

    01988HD

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

    Disturbance (among the jars)
  • 1986
    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    01986HD

    “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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    02008HD

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores
  • 1978
    Windows

    Windows

    Windows

    01978HD

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

    Windows
  • 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
  • 1980
    Processual Video

    Processual Video

    Processual Video

    01980HD

    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...

    Processual Video
  • 1978
    Full Circle

    Full Circle

    Full Circle

    01978HD

    “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...

    Full Circle