FILM

Gary Hill’s work is guided by a desire to conciliate the processes that link language to the moving image. In this video, images from the interior of Hill’s office are synchronised to the syllables of a spoken text, dedicated to a lost love. An intimate dialogue, an “organic automation” occurs as the speech pushes the images forward, beyond the screen’s limits. “It was almost as if I wanted to abuse the images, push them around, manipulate them with words. Maybe I was trying to expand this tiny little space, persuade the woman I lived with of the art-life paradox in plain English. On both accounts, I failed.” (GH)