Gary Hill Movies
- 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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- 1988
Disturbance (among the jars)
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Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The...
- 1978
Elements
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One of the earlier works Hill produced on the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, Elements combines abstract “landscapes” with fragmented...
- 2001
Goats & Sheep
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Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...
- 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...
- 1980
Black/White/Text
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Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black...
- 1979
Objects with Destinations
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Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of...
- 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...
- 1990
Solstice d’Hiver
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Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded...
- 1979
Resolution
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A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms...
- 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...
- 1975
AXIS
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“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...
- 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
Commentary
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“Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in...
- 1978
Sums & Differences
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The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an...
- 1986
Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)
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“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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1983
Happenstance (part one of many parts)
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The associative stream of images and sounds treats the word as an abstract structure. Spoken and written text flows from image to image, morphing...