Henry Hills
Retrospective screening with the artist
“Henry Hills is a polymath, drawing in ideas from multiple disciplines… the avant-jazz and neo-art music of John Zorn, Elliott Sharp and Zeena Parkins, cut-up audio-workers like John Oswald and Christian Marclay, as well as the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, all of whom share with Hills an obsession with micro-syntax, the isolation of discrete units as signifying elements from which to construct discontinuous tapestries, crazy-quilts of shape and gesture.” — Michael Sicinski
Henry Hills: Kino Da!
Format: 16mm
Duration: 3 min
Year: 1981
A portrait of North Beach Communist café poet and gentle comrade, Jack Hirschman. Shot in sync with wind-up Bolex.
Porter Springs 3
Format: 16mm
Duration: 7 min
Year: 1977
My most “painterly” work, basically one image: reflections of trees on the lake broken by a line of waterlilies, an hallucinatory love poem.
Goa Lawah
Format: 16mm
Duration: 5 min
Year: 1991
Goa Lawah is a sacred bat cave on the east coast of Bali.
Radio Adios
Format: 16mm
Duration: 11 min
Year: 1982
A monologue in twelve plaited strands; an extremely precise, condensed and intensely rhythmic Busby Berkeleyish spectacle of language over a fair range of vocal timbre.
SSS
Format: 16mm
Duration: 7 min
Year: 1988
Movement improvised on the streets of pregentrified East Village, synched to music improvised for the project by Tom Cora, Christian Marclay and Zeena Parkins. Beauty emerging from rubble.
Electricity
Format: HD
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2001
The cityscape of Prague viewed through the rhomboidal electricitycatchers on the tops of moving trams.
Failed States
Format: HD
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2008
Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control?
Money
Format: 16mm
Duration: 15 min
Year: 1985
An historical document of the early days of language poetry and the downtown improvised music scene, with John Zorn, Charles Bernstein, Arto Lindsay, etc.
Oona Mosna