Gary Hill Filmes

  • 1980
    Black/White/Text

    Black/White/Text

    Black/White/Text

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

    Black/White/Text
  • 1977
    Electronic Linguistic

    Electronic Linguistic

    Electronic Linguistic

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

    Electronic Linguistic
  • 1988
    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

    Disturbance (among the jars)

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    Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The...

    Disturbance (among the jars)
  • 1983
    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

    Happenstance (part one of many parts)

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    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)
  • 1976
    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

    Mirror Road

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

    Mirror Road
  • 1988
    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

    Incidence of Catastrophe

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    In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more,...

    Incidence of Catastrophe