Gary Hill Movies
- 1980
Around & About
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“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...
- 1978
Primary
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The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and...
- 1979
Picture Story
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“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...
- 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...
- 1979
Equal Time
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In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a...
- 1975
Earth Pulse
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A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the...
- 1970
Pacifier
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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...
- 1978
Windows
Windows01978HD
Silent or with minimal sound, Hill's early formalist works explore the manipulation of electronic color and image density through the camera obscura...
- 1978
Full Circle
Full Circle01978HD
“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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 2011
The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment
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The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance" and...
- 1979
Objects with Destinations
Objects with Destinations01979HD
Objects from the artist’s studio (hammer, cathode ray tube, circuit board rack, chair, clip light) constitute the subjects for a series of...
- 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...
- 2008
Observaciones Sobre los Colores
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Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...
- 2000
Performative images. My skin its skin (per)forming another skin where I voice from
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DVD insert of monograph Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View containing a compilation of Hill's performance art.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1977
Electronic Linguistic
Electronic Linguistic01977HD
The work’s images appear as visualizations of electronically generated sounds. Initially, small pulsating pixel structures occasionally appear...