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Poster for Primary

Primary

1978
  • Gary Hill
  • 2m
  • January 1, 1978 · United States of America

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)

Details

Status
Released
Release date
January 1, 1978
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Director
Gary Hill
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
Primary (1978) | Kinocult