Movies

Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic,...

“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...

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

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

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

A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the...

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

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

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

“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...

Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the...

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

In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a...

The work’s images appear as visualizations of electronically generated sounds. Initially, small pulsating pixel structures occasionally appear...

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

“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...

Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules (voltage...

“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...

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device...