Gary Hill Movies

  • 1983
    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    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...

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)
  • 1981
    Primarily Speaking

    Primarily Speaking

    Primarily Speaking

    01981HD

    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....

    Primarily Speaking
  • 1976
    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    01976HD

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

    Mirror Road
  • 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
  • 1986
    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)

    01986HD

    “The beginning of a remake of an earlier work [Soundings, 1979] in which I wanted to extend the reflexivity of each text in relation to the...

    Mediations (towards a remake of Soundings)
  • 1989
    Site/Recite (a prologue)

    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...

    Site/Recite (a prologue)