Gary Hill Movies

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

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

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

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

Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded...

“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 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...

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

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

Using the phenomenon of inverted (or negative) video feedback, this work constructs a one-to-one correspondence between recited text and image. Black...

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

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

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...

The associative stream of images and sounds treats the word as an abstract structure. Spoken and written text flows from image to image, morphing...

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

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

Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown,...

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