Henry Hills Movies

  • 2002
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

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    Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

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    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 2006
    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

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    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

    Notes on Marie Menken
  • 1988
    SSS

    SSS

    SSS

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    SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee...

    SSS
  • 2024
    Commute

    Commute

    Commute

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    Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a...

    Commute
  • 2009
    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

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    An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)
  • 1990
    Gotham

    Gotham

    Gotham

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    A film set to "Batman" by Naked City. Taking the band’s name and first album cover as a clue, Henry Hills drew heavily on themes in...

    Gotham
  • 1997
    Mechanics Of The Brain

    Mechanics Of The Brain

    Mechanics Of The Brain

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    MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN is an experimental film in the form of a scientific documentary. A "remake" of the documentary film of the same name by...

    Mechanics Of The Brain
  • 1985
    Money

    Money

    Money

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    Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the...

    Money
  • 1994
    Little Lieutenant

    Little Lieutenant

    Little Lieutenant

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    Little Lieutenant is a look back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece. Scored to John...

    Little Lieutenant
  • 2007
    Electricity

    Electricity

    Electricity

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    A Bohemian architectural dance film with an edge. The inner city landscape of Prague, its beautifully integrated accretion of structures, 1000 years...

    Electricity
  • 2008
    Failed States

    Failed States

    Failed States

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    Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.

    Failed States
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    The Genius

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    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

    The Genius
  • 2010
    Arcana

    Arcana

    Arcana

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    A globally composed, musically arranged montage-round: so Henry Hills’s arcana appears to be, a fulminant 30-minute cut-up epic that takes...

    Arcana
  • 1982
    Radio Adios

    Radio Adios

    Radio Adios

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    A superabundance of useless information effectively subdues freedom of speech. Condense and survive!

    Radio Adios
  • 2020
    Double Elvis

    Double Elvis

    Double Elvis

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    A flickering structural examination of Elvis.

    Double Elvis
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

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    Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 2021
    Social Skills

    Social Skills

    Social Skills

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    Henry Hills is among the film artists who, like filmmaker Abigail Child, marries frenetically fast image montage with split-second music and sound...

    Social Skills
  • 1991
    Goa Lawah

    Goa Lawah

    Goa Lawah

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    Goa Lawah is a sacred bat cave on the east coast of Bali. Actual footage.

    Goa Lawah
  • 1976
    George

    George

    George

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    George (1976, revised in 1988) is a portrait of George Kuchar composed on a J-K optical printer with 4 scenes always running simultaneously through...

    George