Gary Hill Movies
- 1978

Primary
Primary01978HD
The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and...
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- 1981

Primarily Speaking
Primarily Speaking01981HD
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....
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- 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...
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- 1986

URA ARU
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Recorded on location in Japan, this work was inspired by the notion of “acoustic palindromes,” aural versions of written palindromes,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2004

Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image
Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image02004HD
In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary...
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- 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...
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- 1980

Processual Video
Processual Video01980HD
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...
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- 1980

Project Tesla
Project Tesla01980HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 2012

Cutting Corners Creates More Sides
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Two channel video installation. A spoken text …rummages through piles of surplus; boxed accouterments and that unaccounted for...
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- 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...
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- 1989

Site/Recite (a prologue)
Site/Recite (a prologue)01989HD
With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard — bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled...
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- 1980

Black/White/Text
Black/White/Text01980HD
Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black...
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- 1988

Disturbance (among the jars)
Disturbance (among the jars)01988HD
Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The...
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- 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...
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- 1974

Rock City Road
Rock City Road01974HD
Recorded in Woodstock, New York, Rock City Road incorporates multiple levels of rescanned images of walking on different surfaces, including pavement...
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