Gary Hill Filmes

  • 1979
    Soundings

    Soundings

    Soundings

    01979HD

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

    Soundings
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Resolution

    Resolution

    Resolution

    01979HD

    A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms...

    Resolution
  • 1977
    Bathing

    Bathing

    Bathing

    01977HD

    In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...

    Bathing
  • 1974
    Air Raid

    Air Raid

    Air Raid

    01974HD

    The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image. This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images...

    Air Raid
  • 1978
    Sums & Differences

    Sums & Differences

    Sums & Differences

    01978HD

    The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an...

    Sums & Differences
  • 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
  • 1975
    AXIS

    AXIS

    AXIS

    01975HD

    “I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many...

    AXIS
  • 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
  • 2001
    Goats & Sheep

    Goats & Sheep

    Goats & Sheep

    02001HD

    Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...

    Goats & Sheep
  • 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
  • 1980
    Around & About

    Around & About

    Around & About

    01980HD

    “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...

    Around & About
  • 2003
    Blind Spot

    Blind Spot

    Blind Spot

    02003HD

    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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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