Filmography

Conceived, directed, shot, and edited by Henry Hills

ELECTRICITY (2007)
Premiere: Rotterdam Film Festival, January 2007

EMMA'S DILEMMA (2005)
including NERVOUS KEN (2003) premiere Museum of Modern Art, and KING RICHARD (2004) premiere Tribeca Film Festival.

THE NEXT STOP (2001)

PORTER SPRINGS 4 (1999)
Premiere: European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, February 1999. American premiere: Anthology Film Archives, April 1999; Melbourne International Film Festival; Viper Film & Video Festival, Lucerne.

A NEW LIFE (shot 1989, edited 1999)

MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN (1997)
Premiere: Anthology Film Archives, October 1998; 3 week run at Dance Theatre Workshop, Feb 1998; ATA Gallery, San Francisco, March 1998; Scratch Cinema, Paris, April 1998; "Tex Avery Meets the Marquis de Sade" Festival, Amsterdam, May 1998; Osnabruck Short Film Festival; Image Festival, Toronto; Atlanta Film Festival; American Dance Festival tour.

HERETIC (1994, revised 1995)
"Burning in the Gate," American Museum of the Moving Image, February 1994 (work-in-progress);
Premiere: Museum of Modern Art, April 1994. Revised version premiere: Films Charas, August 1995; 1995 festivals: Berlin Videofest, Video Formes (Clermont-Ferrand).

LITTLE LIEUTENANT (1993)
Premiere: Millennium, NYC, October 1993. "THE AMERICAN CENTURY: Art & Culture 1900-2000, The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, Part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000" Whitney Museum of American Art, January-February 2000. 1994-5 festival screenings: Mannheim Film Festival; Eye on Dance, NYC (Silver Prize); Rotterdam Festival; Black Maria Festival and Tour (Director's Award); Singapore Film Festival; Cleveland Film Festival; Image Forum, Tokyo & Osaka; Big Muddy Festival (2nd Prize); Onion City Film Festival; Films-on-a-Shoestring; Sinking Creek Celebration (Kodak Award); Conspiracies, NYC; Olympia Film Festival, Washington; Latvia Film Festival; Dance Screen, Lyon; VIPER Festival, Lucerne; Ljubljana Film Festival; FIPA, Nice; S by SW Film Festival, Austin; American Dance Festival tour & Cannes Film Festival (short film mart). Also: P.S.122, weekend with Sally Silvers and Dancers, April 1994; "Face the Music and Dance," Symphony Space, February 23, 1995; "Tex Avery Meets the Marquis deSade," Brussels 1997 & Amsterdam 1998; "Home Sweet Home Video" Rotterdam & Barcelona, 1998.

BALI MÉCANIQUE (1992)
Premiere (as part of weekend-long solo retrospective): Anthology Film Archives, NYC, October 1992; The Asia Society, December 1992; "Off the Wall to Wall," Symphony Space, March 1993.

GOA LAWAH (1990-91)
Premiere: Conspiracies, RAPP Art Center, NYC, 1990; "THE AMERICAN CENTURY: Art & Culture 1900-2000, The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, Part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000" Whitney Museum of American Art, January-February 2000. American Museum of the Moving Image, 1992

GOTHAM (1990, music video for John Zorn's Naked City)
"120 Minutes", MTV, June 1990; ALIVE TV (Alive From Off Center), PBS, summer 1992.

SSS (1988)
Dance on Camera Festival, NY, 2005; Paris Underground Film Festival, 2003; "Belated Bohemia: Art and Identity in the East Village", curated by Ed Halter, New School University, April 2003; Dance Theater Workshop, EYES WIDE OPEN, NYC, 1989; WNYC-TV, EYE ON DANCE, with interview, 1989; rebroadcast, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994; London Film Coop "Film & Video Umbrella Tour", 1990; Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC, 1989; The Kitchen, NYC, 1989; collections: Donnell Media Center, Californis Institute of the Arts

MONEY (1985)
Premiere: Collective for Living Cinema, December 1984; Museum of Modern Art, Cineprobe 1985 & "Recent Acquisitions" 1986; "Independent America: New Film 1978-88," American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, 1988; "Performing Language Conference," Binghamton, NY, 1988; WNYC-TV, EYE ON DANCE, 1989,1991,1992,1993,1994; Lyrik & billeder, Festival 90, Odenses, Denmark; Roulette Intermedium "HiFi Film Festival," 1989; IMAGE, Atlanta, GA, 1990. Paris Underground Film Festival, 2003. Collections: Museum of Modern Art; New York Public Library (Donnell Media Center & Performing Arts at Lincoln Center); Miami Dade Library; Arsenal Berlin; SUNY Buffalo. Text (with interviews and essay): published as MAKING MONEY (Roof Books, NYC, 1986).

RADIO ADIOS (1982)
Museum of Modern Art, "Millennium 25 Years"; The Kitchen, NYC, 1983; Performing Language Conference, Binghamton, NY, 1988. Text: published in O.ARS 5: Translations (Cambridge,1986).

KINO DA! (1981)
"THE AMERICAN CENTURY: Art & Culture 1900-2000, The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, Part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000" Whitney Museum of American Art, January-February 2000. "Shake the Nation: San Francisco Experimental Film", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 1999; "New York New Films," Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy; Infermental III (international video "magazine"), Hungary, 1984; Collective for Living Cinema Decade Tour, 1994; Pompidou Center, Paris, 1984; Arsenal, Berlin, 1984. "Shake the Nation: San Francisco Experimental Film," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 1999. California Sound/California Image, curated by Mark Webber, Barbicon/Lux, London, June, 2003, Paris Underground Film Festival 2004.

PLAGIARISM (1981)
Performing Language Conference, Binghamton, NY, 1988; Hannah Weiner Memorial, St. Marks Church, NYC, 1998."Moving Picture Poetics" S.F.Cinematheque, Nov, 2004.

NORTH BEACH 2 (1979)
"New Works '79," Collective for Living Cinema. Collection: Museum of Modern Art.

NORTH BEACH (1978)
"THE AMERICAN CENTURY: Art & Culture 1900-2000, The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, Part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000" Whitney Museum of American Art, January-February 2000. 2nd London Avant-Garde Film Festival, 1979; Ernie Gehr Restoration Benefit, Collective for Living Cinema, 1980.

PORTER SPRINGS 3 (1977)
"THE AMERICAN CENTURY: Art & Culture 1900-2000, The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, Part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000" Whitney Museum of American Art, January-February 2000. Collections: New York Public Library; Archives du Cinema Experimental d'Avignon; San Francisco Art Institute.

PORTER SPRINGS 2 (1976)

GEORGE (1976, rev 1988)
Premiere: Artist Space, NYC, 1978. Re-premiere: Collective for Living Cinema, 1988.

PORTER SPRINGS (1975)
Premiere: Canyon Cinematheque, December 1975; Eye Music "Films from 415" tour, 1976-7.

UNTITLED (1969)
Fielder Cook Award for Creative Filmmaking, Washington & Lee University.

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