Gary Hill Filmes

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...

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

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

“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...

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...

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...

Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device...

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

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

“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...

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