Louis Hock Movies

A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen...

Documentary about the lives of three Mexican families living in the U.S. without government paperwork.

Beginning with black, the potential, adding only the basis of the film phenomenon, the film ritual, the concepts of causation, and primordial...

At first viewing PACIFIC TIME appears to be a departure from the more abstract and more purely visual delights of Hock's preceding efforts....

A 26-minute metaphorical narrative in which the character is left alone at his post indefinitely to ponder the existential. In his hopefulness he...

The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...

In a completely dark gymnasium, Louis Hock unspooled dozens of feet of 16mm color print stock along the different dimensions of the space, laying...

An ironic documentary

"La Mera Frontera" is a meditation on the border and memory which takes as its point of departure the last battle between the United States and...

September 23, 1973: A motion picture camera shooting through a portal in a church began accumulating images of an adjacent Arlington, Texas shopping...

In the 1970s, Californian artist Louis Hock created a number of studies in the effects of pure colour. The late 1960s saw the rise of the...

A single thread of 16mm film runs through three side-by-side projectors, all aimed at the same wall. Twenty-two and a half second elapse between the...

A visual keening for the exterminated quagga. A silent dirge for lost friends, shadowed up against the wall with light from the tombs.

Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck...