Gary Hill Movies
- 1979
Soundings
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Two color video cameras, two microphones, Dave Jones prototype modules (input amplifiers, variable soft/hard keyers, output amplifier,...
- 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...
- 1970
Pacifier
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1978
Windows
Windows01978HD
Silent or with minimal sound, Hill's early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura...
- 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,...
- 1978
Mouthpiece
Mouthpiece01978HD
Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage...
- 1978
Primary
Primary01978HD
The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and...
- 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
Full Circle
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“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...
- 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
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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...
- 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...
- 1983
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...
- 1976
Mesh
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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...
- 1980
Processual Video
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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...
- 1986
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...