Gary Hill's documentary helped inform and inspire my work in video, which is a new and strange medium for me. I really contemplated his statement about video being of a reflexive nature, like a seance, and a circuit that allows you to think out loud. He exclaimed that, in his work at least, that video is not sound, not light, not image, but of some new kind of texture.
In several of his works Hill worked with strobe lights which I actually found particularly hard to watch at times. He also uses himself as an interactive part and language. The strobe light seemed to help capture the similar rhythm of the language and the movement applied. The language is often used but often very obscured, which seemed to be consistent in the overall context of all the work in the documentary.
I found Hill's interest to be mostly involved with behavior and to obligate the viewer to have to think by involving and playing very complex ideas and metaphors. I really enjoyed his ideas of comprehension and perception, and I believe that Gary Hill does a excellent job of exploring and conveying the mysterious, the unconscious, and "the edge".
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