Louis Hock Movies
- 1979
There? Where?
There? Where?01979HD
A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen...
- 1972
Elements
Elements01972HD
Beginning with black, the potential, adding only the basis of the film phenomenon, the film ritual, the concepts of causation, and primordial...
- 1978
Pacific Time
Pacific Time01978HD
At first viewing PACIFIC TIME appears to be a departure from the more abstract and more purely visual delights of Hock's preceding efforts....
- 2021
North Star
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A 26-minute metaphorical narrative in which the character is left alone at his post indefinitely to ponder the existential. In his hopefulness he...
- 1986
The Mexican Tapes: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law
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Documentary about the lives of three Mexican families living in the U.S. without government paperwork.
- 1973
Silent Reversal
Silent Reversal01973HD
The film does not end, is never rewound, and each frame is seen twice in a single viewing: a palindrome illustrating the Chicago "elevated," the...
- 1977
Photogrammetry Series
Photogrammetry Series01977HD
In a completely dark gymnasium, Louis Hock unspooled dozens of feet of 16mm color print stock along the different dimensions of the space, laying...
- 1969
Los Barcos
Los Barcos01969HD
An ironic documentary
- 1997
La Mera Frontera
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"La Mera Frontera" is a meditation on the border and memory which takes as its point of departure the last battle between the United States and...
- 1975
Still Lives
Still Lives01975HD
September 23, 1973: A motion picture camera shooting through a portal in a church began accumulating images of an adjacent Arlington, Texas shopping...
- 1975
Light Traps
Light Traps01975HD
In the 1970s, Californian artist Louis Hock created a number of studies in the effects of pure colour. The late 1960s saw the rise of the...
- 1979
Southern California
Southern California01979HD
A single thread of 16mm film runs through three side-by-side projectors, all aimed at the same wall. Twenty-two and a half second elapse between the...
- 1973
Zebra
Zebra01973HD
A visual keening for the exterminated quagga. A silent dirge for lost friends, shadowed up against the wall with light from the tombs.
- 1975
Studies In Chronovision
Studies In Chronovision01975HD
Film sketches constructed over the past five years investigating temporal composition via single frame-time lapse techniques: light struck...