Gary Hill, USA

Site/Recite (A prologue)

USA, 1989 Video, 4:05 min Regie/Director: Gary Hill Darsteller/Mitwirkende/Actor: Lou Hetter Kamera/Cinematographer: Rex Barker

With startling precision „Site/Recite” moves across and around a table top graveyard-bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled notes, skulls-in a series of seamless edits that present a continuos flow of detailed close-ups. This taxonomy of dispossession, „little death that pile up“, is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic self-consciousness and visual experience.

Full Circle

USA, 1978 U-matic, 3:46 min

The screen is divided into three sections: a close-up of handsbending a metal rod into a circle; a full-image view of this figure; and the electronically generated circular image, which is created by Hill’s vocalization of an „Ah“ sound. The result is a paradoxical tension between sculpting physical material and „sculpting“ the non-physical material of electronics.