Gary Hill Movies

“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...

A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the...

The strategy for recording and composing Air Raid was derived from sound rather than image. This produced some unusual juxtapositions between images...

In Mirror Road, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the malleability of electronic colors and image density. Amorphous...

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

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

Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...

“I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many...

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

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

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

“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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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