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HENRY HILLS
www.henryhills.com
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS--conceived, directed, shot, and edited
FAILED STATES, 2008
ELECTRICITY, 2007
EMMA’S DILEMMA, 2005
KING RICHARD, 2004
NERVOUS KEN, 2003
THE NEXT STOP, 2001
PORTER SPRINGS 4. 1999
MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN, 1997
HERETIC, 1995
LITTLE LIEUTENANT, 1994
BALI MÉCANIQUE, 1992
OSAKA BONDAGE, 1991
IGNEOUS EJACULATION, 1990
GOTHAM, 1990
GOA LAWAH, 1990-91
SSS, 1988
MONEY, 1985
RADIO ADIOS, 1982
KINO DA!, 1981
PLAGIARISM, 1981
NORTH BEACH 2, 1979
NORTH BEACH, 1978
PORTER SPRINGS 3, 1977
JOEL, 1977
PORTER SPRINGS 2, 1976
GEORGE, 1976
PORTER SPRINGS, 1975
BALIEIRE, 1975
SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS
Skolska 28 Gallery, Prague, March 2008
KinoART, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2007
“Manifesten 01” (poetry conference) Limoges, France, February 2007
“Inner Worlds Outside” Whitechapel Gallery, London, May 2006
Ponrepo, Prague, May 2006
PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, Czech Rep., October 2005
Anthology Film Archives, June 2005
California Institute of the Arts, November, 2004
Roulette TV, ch 56/108 New York, Jan & April & October 2003
SUNY Buffalo, October 2002
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 2002
Mass. College of Art, March 2002
Bela Belacs Studio, Budapest, June 2001
Bio Konvikt, Prague, April, 2001
Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam, March 2000
SUNY Purchase, Nov 1999
University of Binghamton, SUNY, Nov 1999
California Institute of the Arts, Sept 1999
Occidental College, Los Angeles, Sept 1999
L.A. Film Forum, Sept 1999
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov 1998
Chicago Filmmakers, Nov 1998
Knitting Factory, Feb 1997, also March 1995
Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 1997, also 1992, 1981
Total Mobile Home, San Francisco, Nov 96
Scratch Cinema, Paris, Mar 96
Cinema Achtung, Grenoble, Mar 96
Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva, Mar 96
Alhambra, Marseilles, Mar 96
Austria Film Coop, Vienna, Mar 96
Arsenal, Berlin, Mar 96
Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, Mar 96
Rocky Mountain Film Center, Boulder, October 1995; also 1983
Orgone Cinema, Pittsburgh, July 1995
San Francisco Cinematheque, January, 1995; also 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986.
Museum of Modern Art, CINEPROBE, April, 1994; also 1985
Millennium, NYC, Dec. 1993; also 1983, 1981
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 1990
Collective for Living Cinema, NYC, 1984, 1988, 1990
Los Angeles Film Forum, L.A.C.E. Gallery, 1989
Obscur Gallery, Quebec, 1986
Institute for North American Linguistic Studies, Barcelona, 1983
Independent Film Oasis, LAICA Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. 1981
SELECTED GROUP SCREENINGS
San Francisco Film Festival, April 2008
Febio-fest, Prague, March 2008
Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, March 2008
Nova sin Gallery, Prague, March 2008
ArchFilm Matinee / Urbanitat & Asthetik: Cine/tecture, FilmCasino, Vienna, Feb 2008
Rotterdam Film Fesrtival, January 2008
Artslut Videos: 1975-2006, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Dec 2007
New York Film Festival “Views from the Avant Garde” October 2007
“Jewels and Gems from the Film-Makers Coop” Collective Unconscious, NYC. Nov 2007
Paris Strip Festival, October 2007
Wilkinson Gallery, London, September 2007
Lower East Side Film Festival, June 2007
May Movie Mayhem, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, May 2007, curated by Jeanne Liotta
“On the Collective for Living Cinema” Orchard Gallery, NYC April 2007
CinE-Dance in America, Natl Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 2007, curated by Bruce Posner
Rotterdam International Film Festival, February 2007
Urbanitat & Asthetik: Hoch Hinaus--Screening Manhattan, FilmCasino, Vienna, Oct, 2006
Paris Splice Festival, June 2006
Music on Film Film on Music (MOFFOM), Prague, October 2005 & October 2006
“Shoot the Poem” Bowery Poetry Club, NYC June 5, 2005
Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, April & May 2006
“Broca's Aphasia, Disturbances of Language” The Phatory Gallery, NYC. Apr 2005
Art plus DANCE Party, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Mar 21, 2005
“Pan-Pot/Dusk to Dawn” The Phatory Gallery, NY Feb, 2005
Dance on Camera Festival, New York, January 2005
“Time After Time”, argos Festival, Brussels, Nov. 2004
“Moving Picture Poetics” S.F.Cinematheque, Nov, 2004
“Synaesthesia”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Oct-Nov 2004
Tribeca Film Festival, May 2004
Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2004
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, March 2004
Paris Underground Film Festival (PIUFF), October, 2003 , also Oct. 2004
California Sound/California Image, curated by Mark Webber, Barbicon/Lux, London, June, 2003
“Site-Seeing Manhattan”, Initiative Architektur, Salzburg, April 2003
Splice Festival, Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, April 2003
“Belated Bohemia: Art & Identity in the East Village”, curated by Ed Halter, New School, April 2003
3rd St. Petersburg Int’l. Dance Film Festival, Mar 2003 (also, Museum of Cinema, Moscow)
“Language is a virus…” Balagan, Boston. Mar 2003
“Screen Words”, Slough Foundation, Philadelphia, Jan. 2003 (http://slought.org/press/11134/)
“40 Years in Focus” S.F.Cinematheque, March 2002
Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, “The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000”:Dec 9, 1999 “Practicing Eternity”, Dec 28 “Transit”, Jan 23, 2000 “Wolf Tones (Songs of a Wayfarer)”, Feb 5 “Vertigo”, Feb 6 “The Human Dress”.
“Torched Songs” Ocularis at Galapagos, Brooklyn Jan 17, 2000
“Shake the Nation: Bay Area Film 1940-1990”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1999
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1998, 1999
Impakt, Utrecht, 1999
Viper, Switzerland. 1999
American Dance Festival "Dancing for the Camera" 96 tour
New York Underground Film Festival, March 1996
Films Charas, Aug 1995, also 1984, 1985, 1993
1994-95 FESTIVALS: Mannheim, Eye on Dance(NYC)(Silver Prize), Rotterdam, Black Maria tour (Director's Award), Singapore, Cleveland, Image Forum (Tokyo & Osaka), Big Muddy (2nd Prize), Onion City, Films-on-a-Shoestring, Sinking Creek (Kodak Award), Conspiracies (NYC), Olympia, Latvia, Dance Screen (Lyon), Styrian Autumn (Graz, Austria), Dansevideo (Bergen, Norway), VIPER (Lucerne), Ljubljana, Grand prix Int'l. Video Danse (Paris), Berlin Videofest, FIPA (Nice), Video Dansa (Barcelona), S by SW (Austin), Cannes (short film mart), Video Formes (Clermont-Ferrand), Semaine Int'l. de Vidéo (Saint-Gervais Genève).
"Face the Music and Dance", Symphony Space, Feb 23, 1995
"Burning in the Gate,"American Museum of the Moving Image,Jan&Feb'94
"Off the Wall to Wall", Symphony Space, March 1993
The Asia Society, Feb 1993
ALIVE TV (ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER), PBS, summer 1992
First Festival of MIXOLOGY, Roulette Intermedium, March 1992
Film & Video Umbrella Tour, Great Britain, 1991
"120 Minutes," MTV, summer 1990
Lyrik & billeder, Festival 90, Odenses, Denmark
IMAGE, Atlanta, GA, 1990
Dance Theater Workshop, EYES WIDE OPEN, 1989
WNYC-TV, EYE ON DANCE, 1989; rebroadcast 1991,1992,1993,1994
Reel Time, P.S. 122, NYC, 1989, 1993
"Independent America: New Film 1978-88," Amer. Mus. of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, 1988
Performing Language Conference, Binghamton, NY, 1988
The Kitchen, NYC, 1987,
Thalia Soho, NYC, 1987
Museum of Modern Art, "Recent Acquisitions," NYC, 1987
"New York New Films," Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
Infermental III(international video magazine), Hungary, 1984
Pompidou Center, Paris, 1984; Arsenal, Berlin, 1984, 1991
2nd London Avant-Garde Film Festival, 1979
Artists Space, NYC, 1978
Eye Music, San Francisco, 1976
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center
Performing Arts Library, Lincoln Center
Archives du Film Experimental d'Avignon
Arsenal, Berlin
Rocky Mountain Film Center, Univ. of Colorado
California Institute of the Arts
San Francisco Art Institute
University of Binghamton, SUNY
SUNY Buffalo
University of Pennsylvania
Bard College
Pacific Film Archive
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
MacDowell Colony, artist residencies 1996 & 1997 & 2001
Jerome Foundation, film production, 1996
New York Foundation for the Arts, emerging forms, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts, dance film production (with Sally Silvers), 1992
New York State Council on the Arts, film distribution, 1987
New York State Council on the Arts, film production, 1985
National Endowment for the Arts, film production, 1983
CURATOR
2006-2008 Visiting Filmmaker series, Skolska 28 Gallery, Prague (funded by Trust for Mutual Understanding)
2005-2008 Classics of American Avant-Garde, Ponrepo, Nat’l Film Archive, Prague
1988-1999 Segue Performance Space, NYC (funded by NYSCA and Andy Warhol Foundation)
1986 Hi-Fi Film Festival, Roulette Intermedium, NYC
1983 New New York Films, Würzburg Film Festival
1983 Idiolects Benefits, Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
1981 West Coast Survey, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
1980-86 Different Every Viewing, O-P Screen, NYC
1979 Last Tuesday (film, poetry, & jazz), Millennium, NYC
1975-77 Free-Films-Twice-A-Week, San Francisco Art Institute
1973-74 Apocalyptic Film Festival, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA
TEACHING
Visiting Professor, FAMU, Film Academy Prague, Fall 2005-Spring 2008
Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 1996
Adjunct Professor, The Pratt Institute, Spring 1995-1997
Bard College, negative-cutting workshops 1994-5
Collective for Living Cinema,, beginning filmmaking workshops 1990-92
OTHER
Restoration of PORTER SPRINGS 3 and KINO DA! by Pacific Film Archive
PENN SOUND page (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hills.html)
“STUDIO 360” interview, WNYC (syndicated nationally), May 2003
MAKING MONEY (Roof Books, NY, 1986), artist book
1985-88 Board of Directors, Film-Makers Cooperative, NYC
1977-81 Editor, THE CINEMANEWS, West Coast avant-garde film journal
1976-78 President & founding Board member, Foundation for Art in Cinema, San Francisco
Executive Director, The Segue Foundation, 1985-92.
President, Hips Road, 1992.
Developer, 303 East 8th St. HDFC, only successful Manhattan artist housing project in the 80s.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. (filmmaking), 1978, San Francisco Art Institute
B.A. (English), 1970, Washington & Lee University
