Gary Hill Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

“Made just before Around & About, this work is something of a ‘manifesto in jest’ against television…. I’m a sit-in...

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

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

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

One of the earlier works Hill produced on the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, Elements combines abstract “landscapes” with fragmented...

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

Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...

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

In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary...

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

A single solid white line rotates 180 degrees, beginning at a vertical position in the middle of the screen. At first, it forms...

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

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

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