Phill Niblock Movies

  • 2020
    6 Hours of Music and Film

    6 Hours of Music and Film

    6 Hours of Music and Film

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    As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill...

    6 Hours of Music and Film
  • 1972
    T H I R

    T H I R

    T H I R

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    T H I R is taken from "Ten Hundred Inch Radii" an intermedia performance of film and music (1972-1975). Filmed with a Beaulieu 16 mm around Keene...

    T H I R
  • 1988
    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

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    The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91,...

    CHINA '88
  • 2015
    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

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    A 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to Phill Niblock's...

    Timepiece/Maize
  • 2003
    The Movement of People Working

    The Movement of People Working

    The Movement of People Working

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    A compilation of non-narrative films shot in the 1970s and 1980s by Phill Niblock concerned with the movement people make when they do menial tasks.

    The Movement of People Working
  • 2017
    Ice-Out

    Ice-Out

    Ice-Out

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    A 59 minute extreme close-up long take of ice cubes slowly melting until they become just water in a stainless steel sink to Phill Niblock's...

    Ice-Out
  • 1975
    Hannah Weiner

    Hannah Weiner

    Hannah Weiner

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    Another short film by Niblock which consists simply of Hannah Weiner reading from one of her texts, initially in close-up and then over footage of...

    Hannah Weiner