Titles by Gary Hill

Around & About
Bathing
Bits
Black/White/Text
Commentary
Electronic Linguistics
Elements
Equal Time
Full Circle (formerly Ring Modulation)
Happenstance (part one of many parts)
Incidence of Catastrophe
Mediations
Mirror Road
Mouthpiece
Objects With Destinations
Picture Story
Blind Spot
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
Primarily Speaking
Primary
Processual Video
Site/Recite (a prologue)
Solstice d'hiver
Soundings
Sums & Differences
Tale Enclosure
URA ARU (the backside exists)
Videograms
Why Do Things Get In a Muddle? (Come on Petunia)
Windows

Happenstance (part one of many parts)

1982-83, 6:47 min, b&w, sound

The aesthetically sophisticated use of modest black-and-white image processing in Happenstance relates elegant compositions of basic shapes to a dialogue between spoken and written texts that meditates upon the ephemerality of linguistic meaning: "[Words] sit like deer in a field. If I approach them too quickly, they fade into the quick of things."