louis hock

selected film, video, and photo work

 THE AMERICAN TAPES 2012          a 30 year following-up on the four  immigrant  families from the 1986  series, THE MEXICAN TAPES 
 Four 57 one hour episodes (HD video)
 Premiered at Morelia Film Festival

NIGHTSCOPE SERIES 2000-2003

10 digital pigment prints of nocturnal U.S./Mexican border crossers (orig. titled "La Mera Frontera Series") (17 X 24 " / 43.3 X 60.9 cm)

"Only Skin Deep," touring exhibition from the International Center of Photography (New York), "Constructed Evidence, "University Art Museum (CSU Long Beach), "The Message is the Medium," Jim Kempner Fine Art (NYC), Cameraworks (San Francisco)

LA MERA FRONTERA 1997

An 89 minute film offering a contemporary meditation on the border town of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora and the international battle between the towns in 1918 (available in 16mm film and DVD)

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Figueira da Foz (Portugal), Society of Cinema Studies (La Jolla), Encuentro (Mexico City), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)

THE MEXICAN TAPES: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law 1986

A series of 4 one-hour videotapes concerning the life and times of a community of undocumented Mexicans (available in DigiBeta, VHS, DVD)

WNET New York, KQED San Francisco, KCET Los Angeles, BBC United Kingdom, Pacific Film Archive (San Francisco) Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: a cinemural 1979
(DVD re-release 2005)

70 minute looping color 16mm film triptych for public spaces offering a critical look at the mythological landscape of southern California

Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh),  Whitney Museum, Denver Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

STUDIES IN CHRONOVISION 1975

22 minute 16mm color film using time-lapse cinematography (available in DVD)

Museum of Modern Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MBX (Paris), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)