Henry Hills Movies

  • 2009
    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

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    An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)
  • 2016
    HHHH

    HHHH

    HHHH

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    Avoiding traditional narrative structures, all images revolve in one way or another around the letter H.

    HHHH
  • 2021
    Social Skills

    Social Skills

    Social Skills

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    Henry Hills is among the film artists who, like filmmaker Abigail Child, marries frenetically fast image montage with split-second music and sound...

    Social Skills
  • 2008
    Failed States

    Failed States

    Failed States

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    Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.

    Failed States
  • 2006
    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

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    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

    Notes on Marie Menken
  • 1981
    Plagiarism

    Plagiarism

    Plagiarism

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    A raw documentary of New York "language poets" in their milieu.

    Plagiarism
  • 2025
    Commute

    Commute

    Commute

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    Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a...

    Commute
  • 2019
    The Tree

    The Tree

    The Tree

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    The tree here is an ancient American Elm standing in Tompkins Square Park in New York. It’s named 'The Hare Krishna Tree' because an Indian...

    The Tree
  • 2010
    Arcana

    Arcana

    Arcana

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    A globally composed, musically arranged montage-round: so Henry Hills’s arcana appears to be, a fulminant 30-minute cut-up epic that takes...

    Arcana
  • 1978
    North Beach

    North Beach

    North Beach

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    “North Beach is a beautiful film. The human race should stick around to enjoy it. It’s all cinema, all experience. No...

    North Beach
  • 1999
    Porter Springs 4

    Porter Springs 4

    Porter Springs 4

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    A “remake” of my first film, Porter Springs 4 (1999) is composed from footage shot over 20 years (reversal, negative, 8 mm, super-8, 8mm...

    Porter Springs 4
  • 1977
    Porter Springs 3

    Porter Springs 3

    Porter Springs 3

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    My first film (San Francisco, 1975) was Porter Springs, an exalted home movie shot on summer vacation in the North Georgia mountains at a place I...

    Porter Springs 3
  • 1979
    North Beach 2

    North Beach 2

    North Beach 2

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    A re-edited version of NORTH BEACH; more frenetic, more out there, more '80s. "It is interesting to note that this tendency toward design, so...

    North Beach 2