Short film
Primary
1978 · 2 min
A hypnotic, disorienting experiment where spoken color words and flashing hues collide, demanding close attention to lip movements and sound.
- Directed by
- Gary Hill
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation
- Overview
- The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and repeatedly articulated. The color of the screen switches from red to blue to green at a quickened rate. Utilizing the same rate, the spoken words, “red,” “blue,” and “green,” are cut together into syllabic combinations of the three words making up the asynchronous sound track. The individual words, barely intelligible as spoken, are more easily “read” on the uniformly moving lips. (Quasha, George and Charles Stein. An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009, p. 589)
- How it feels
- Eerie, absurd and satirical. Brisk and demanding.
- About
- Art, identity, media
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Gary Hill
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation