
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out. In this epic journey into the picaresque, we follow Emma Bee Bernstein, our intrepid protagonist, from her pre-teen innocence to her late teen-attitude, as she learns about the downtown art scene firsthand. In the process, Hills reimagines the art of video in a style that achieves the density, complexity, and visual richness of his greatest films.

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2012

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019

Visions of Light
1992

The Unknown Known
2013

The War on Democracy
2007

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004

Fuck
2006

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

The Celluloid Closet
1996

The War Room
1993