Primary

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Primary (1978)

Directed by Gary Hill

Documentary, Animation · 2m

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)

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Director
Gary Hill

Details

Release date
1978-01-01
Runtime
2m
Genres
Documentary, Animation
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America