Gary Hill Documentary

I thought that many of the ideas that Gary Hill's videos dealt with were very interesting. I found the concept of language and its relationship to how we observe time very neat. I was really intrigued by his videos where the words and actions were recorded being done backwards and were played to look like they were moving forwards.

I was also very interested in his video using single frame editing. I thought that the video that technique created was very beautiful and almost haunting. I thought this particular video really made me think about time and the passage of time. As the frames changed farther apart time seemed to slow down significantly and when they were closer it seemed to speed up. The single frame editing also reminded me of old film reels and how at some points the different frames could be seen. This added to the dark, old, haunting feeling of the video.