Gary Hill Movies

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    Pacifier

    01970HD

    Pacifier
  • 1981
    Videograms

    Videograms

    Videograms

    81981HD

    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...

    Videograms
  • 1988
    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    01988HD

    In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...

    Incidence of Catastrophe
  • 1985
    Tale Enclosure

    Tale Enclosure

    Tale Enclosure

    81985HD

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

    Tale Enclosure
  • 1978
    Windows

    Windows

    Windows

    01978HD

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

    Windows
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 1979
    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    Picture Story

    01979HD

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

    Picture Story
  • 1977
    Electronic Linguistic

    Electronic Linguistic

    Electronic Linguistic

    01977HD

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

    Electronic Linguistic
  • 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
  • 1978
    Primary

    Primary

    Primary

    01978HD

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

    Primary
  • 2008
    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores

    02008HD

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...

    Observaciones Sobre los Colores
  • 1974
    Rock City Road

    Rock City Road

    Rock City Road

    01974HD

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

    Rock City Road
  • 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