Gary Hill Filmes

  • 1965
    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    Skaterdater

    5.91965HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    01976HD

    In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous...

    Mirror Road
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Commentary

    Commentary

    Commentary

    01980HD

    “Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in...

    Commentary
  • 2011
    The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

    The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

    The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

    02011HD

    The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance" and...

    The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    01970HD

    Pacifier
  • 1981
    Primarily Speaking

    Primarily Speaking

    Primarily Speaking

    01981HD

    This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half....

    Primarily Speaking