Henry Hills Movies

A self-reflective study of the dance and rhythms of life in Bali, Bali Mécanique presents a luscious spectacle for the eye and a momentary...

A superabundance of useless information effectively subdues freedom of speech. Condense and survive!

Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty.

Kino Da! (1981) is a portrait of North Beach Communist cafe poet & gentle comrade, Jack Hirschman, editor of the “Artaud Anthology”...

SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee...

A raw documentary of New York "language poets" in their milieu.

Goa Lawah is a sacred bat cave on the east coast of Bali. Actual footage.

“North Beach is a beautiful film. The human race should stick around to enjoy it. It’s all cinema, all experience. No...

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zorn's Naked City "soundtrack" album Heretic, and...

A film set to "Batman" by Naked City. Taking the band’s name and first album cover as a clue, Henry Hills drew heavily on themes in...

A vision of the tortured torrential psyche, made out of two scenes from the film noir NIAGARA — the movie that made MM a goddess and the...

The tree here is an ancient American Elm standing in Tompkins Square Park in New York. It’s named 'The Hare Krishna Tree' because an Indian...

Henry Hills is among the film artists who, like filmmaker Abigail Child, marries frenetically fast image montage with split-second music and sound...

Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a...

A flickering structural examination of Elvis.

Avoiding traditional narrative structures, all images revolve in one way or another around the letter H.

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

A Bohemian architectural dance film with an edge. The inner city landscape of Prague, its beautifully integrated accretion of structures, 1000 years...