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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.
Most Popular Tony Hill Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
03 June 2013
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.
02 April 2015
A spinning camera finds new perspectives on some portraits and other things. Strangely the world does not become an abstract blur but flickers, distorts and merges.
18 June 1982
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 movement.
12 February 2013
‘Bike’ explores some different ways of looking at riding a bicycle. A form of visual relativity is created by fixing the camera inside the wheel, to the pedal and floating above the head of the rider.
01 January 1992
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 through horsepower and machine age tractor and car to the ultimate wheeled transport, the bicycle.
01 January 2004
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 story of changes in farming practice.
01 January 2006
Shot during a workshop at the Laban Dance Centre in London, the film explores some of the visual opportunities offered by the architecture and participants without dwelling on formal dance movement.
01 January 1997
An experimental film that looks afresh at landscape by using the medium to explore its time and space in ways other than ‘eye view’.
01 July 2017
The chance to ‘free fall’ up and down from a bounce is surely one of the main attractions of using a trampoline.
01 June 2008
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 relative high speed chaos of traffic.
25 November 2004
Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals.
03 August 2001
An experiment with orientation movement and shape combined with musical improvisation. A continuous rolling, tumbling motion determined by a geometric shape creates a visual rhythm and images that roll, dip and soar with the improvised soundtrack.
01 January 1990
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 fading with the bell chime at each strike.
01 January 1972
"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 beneath the floor.
18 November 1985
A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground.
01 January 1987
A sculptural film which explores the space on and just below the surface of a swimming pool. It plays with orientation, weightlessness and particularly the surface itself, that peculiar boundary between worlds that is both window and mirror, visible and invisible.
01 May 1993
A cinematic roller-coaster ride at the hands of a performer who is literally holding the viewer on the end of a pole.
01 January 1971
"A multiperson head, on the border between live action and animation, struggles to assert itself against the rapid succession of personal appearances.
01 January 2000
‘Camera Obscura’ is an experimental documentary which draws sounds and images from the Dartington Estate in Devon and constructs an idiosyncratic portrait.
01 January 1992
The Association of Theatrical Practices Gardzienice was founded in 1976 by Wlodzimierz Staniewski in a village near Lublin, which remains the group's headquarters to this day.
01 January 2021
A woman walks and starts to turn. She continues to turn in different places as we follow, impossibly locked on to her body.
01 January 1990
An experimental anamorphic film with optically squashed and squeezed images which raises some questions about the perception of shapes.
01 January 2003
Sally Goode has been blind from birth. Tony Hill took her to a location unknown to her and recorded her describing what she found.
