This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in Wonderland asks her omniscient father why things get in a muddle. They then talk on a metalinguistic level. A glimpse through the looking glass reveals an inversion of the customary order of things. The father ingests the smoke from his pipe, Alice does not so much blink her eyelids momentarily open as stare wide-eyed, and the playing cards fall out of the air in an orderly manner into the girl’s hand. (Gary Hill: Selected Works and catalogue raisonné, edited by Holger Broeker)
Gary Hill
Director
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience69%
Shanghaied59%
A Woman60%
Perfect Day69%
Our Wife70%
The Tramp65%
The Finishing Touch69%
Beau Hunks68%
Stowaway60%
From Straight A's to XXX59%
Waking Life74%
Heavy Traffic65%
Affairs of the Art61%
Pretty Boy76%
Thicker Than Water72%
Yes, God, Yes62%
Room 23761%
Tinker Bell69%
Alien: Specimen62%
The Little Prince76%
