Tony Hill

Tony Hill

Born in London in 1946, Tony Hill studied Architecture and Sculpture and makes experimental short films. He has been working as an independent film-maker since 1973, usually taking on all aspects of production and developing and building his own equipment. He also works with installations, photography, sculpture and sound. He has presented his work at many Art Galleries and in Film Festivals worldwide. His films have been broadcast on television in many countries and have won several awards. His commercial work includes directing music videos and TV commercials. He taught film and video from 1982 until 2002 at the University of Derby becoming Professor of Film, taught filmmaking at Plymouth College of Art from 2004 until 2011 and is currently an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth.

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Tony Hill Movies

  • 1997
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    Laws of Nature

    Laws of Nature

    1 1997 HD

    An experimental film that looks afresh at landscape by using the medium to explore its time and space in ways other than ‘eye view’. A...

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  • 1990
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    Expanded Movie

    Expanded Movie

    1 1990 HD

    An experimental anamorphic film with optically squashed and squeezed images which raises some questions about the perception of shapes. From the...

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  • 2004
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    Farm Film

    Farm Film

    1 2004 HD

    Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals....

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  • 1970
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    Pomme Fritz

    Pomme Fritz

    1 1970 HD

    Experimental music video for English electronic music group The Orb by Tony Hill. "I had just bought a 35mm film camera and this was the first thing...

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  • 2003
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    A Sense of Place

    A Sense of Place

    1 2003 HD

    Sally Goode has been blind from birth. Tony Hill took her to a location unknown to her and recorded her describing what she found. By touch and sound...

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  • 1985
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    Downside Up

    Downside Up

    6 1985 HD

    A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits...

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  • 1993
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    Holding the Viewer

    Holding the Viewer

    4 1993 HD

    A cinematic roller-coaster ride at the hands of a performer who is literally holding the viewer on the end of a pole. Swoop above his head on a...

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  • 1987
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    Water Work

    Water Work

    1 1987 HD

    A sculptural film which explores the space on and just below the surface of a swimming pool. It plays with orientation, weightlessness and...

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  • 2000
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    Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura

    1 2000 HD

    ‘Camera Obscura’ is an experimental documentary which draws sounds and images from the Dartington Estate in Devon and constructs an...

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  • 2004
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    Greenwell Barn

    Greenwell Barn

    1 2004 HD

    A tour of an old barn narrated by the farmer, Arnold Cole, who has known it for over 50 years. Redundant barn spaces and features serve to prompt the...

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  • 2013
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    Bike

    Bike

    1 2013 HD

    ‘Bike’ explores some different ways of looking at riding a bicycle. A form of visual relativity is created by fixing the camera inside...

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  • 2008
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    North Cross

    North Cross

    1 2008 HD

    This film is inspired by the calm oasis at the centre of North Cross roundabout in Plymouth and the contrast between the activity of walking and the...

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  • 2015
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    Spin

    Spin

    1 2015 HD

    A spinning camera finds new perspectives on some portraits and other things. Strangely the world does not become an abstract blur but flickers,...

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  • 2006
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    Laban Manoeuvres

    Laban Manoeuvres

    1 2006 HD

    Shot during a workshop at the Laban Dance Centre in London, the film explores some of the visual opportunities offered by the architecture and...

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  • 2001
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    Geometry & Gravity

    Geometry & Gravity

    1 2001 HD

    An experiment with orientation movement and shape combined with musical improvisation. A continuous rolling, tumbling motion determined by a...

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  • 2013
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    Sea

    Sea

    5 2013 HD

    A meditation on the constancy of the rhythms and ever-changing movement of the sea as waves break on the shore at different locations in Cornwall. A...

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  • 2017
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    Bounce

    Bounce

    1 2017 HD

    The chance to ‘free fall’ up and down from a bounce is surely one of the main attractions of using a trampoline. This film celebrates...

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  • 1982
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    To See

    To See

    1 1982 HD

    Film eyes open, blink and see, looking about with all-round vision. Shapes, lines and spaces are not constant but ebb and flow with the camera...

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  • 1990
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    Striking Images

    Striking Images

    1 1990 HD

    Big Ben strikes twelve while rotating around its own clockface as day turns into night. Twelve shots from twelve locations in one minute, the images...

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  • 1971
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    100 Heads

    100 Heads

    1 1971 HD

    "A multiperson head, on the border between live action and animation, struggles to assert itself against the rapid succession of personal...

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  • 1992
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    A Short History of the Wheel

    A Short History of the Wheel

    1 1992 HD

    An exercise in visual relativity in the form of a journey through space and time with the wheel. Starting with a primitive hand-drawn cart and moving...

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  • 1972
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    2nd Floor Film

    2nd Floor Film

    1 1972 HD

    "Originally designed to be projected back up onto a screen on the glass floor on which it was made, this film uses people to explore the space...

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  • 2021
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    Twirl

    Twirl

    1 2021 HD

    A woman walks and starts to turn. She continues to turn in different places as we follow, impossibly locked on to her body. Finally floating above...

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