The brevity of the images connected one to another makes them syllabic, so that there are two phrases: the phrase in sound and the visual phrase, with both progressing jerkily and uninterruptedly. What is surprising is the pragmatic dimension of the words and images: they are acts. In reality, Gary Hill is quite simply teaching us a lesson: what is television? "Television contains image, television contains sound, television contains space, no one is connecting, no one is feeling the attempts of connection, everything is real time, everything is soft time, everything is time code, it's a hologram with a hollow sound."

The text of Commentary is actually not a commentary. It is aphorismic, affirming without explanation. In the language of American television, Commentary means a "live broadcast". It is in a short and enigmatic time that secondarity is inserted in the spontaneity of live action.

Paul-Emmanuel Odin