Nancy Holt

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Going Around in Circles
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Going Around in Circles

Jan 01, 1973

Going Around in Circles
1973 15 min 1 vues
Going Around in Circles is an early video experiment in which Holt explores perception and point of view. A board in which five circular holes have been cut has been placed in front of the camera. Through the holes, which are covered and uncovered, five subjects are seen moving between five points, turning in circles, and following instructions. The artist and her subjects are heard discussing their experience of the performance, how it is perceived on the ground and through the playback monitor, and the different scales and viewpoints created.
Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park
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Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park

Jan 01, 1988

Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park
1988 33 min 1 vues
This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also serves as a kind of contemporary Stonehenge: once a year, on August 1 at 9:30 am, the shadows of the objects exactly align with outlines on the ground. Interviews with the artist, the architects, engineers, contractors, and the public, among others, reveal Dark Star Park as both a public sculpture and a functioning park that reclaims a blighted urban environment.
Documentary
Boomerang
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Boomerang

Jul 01, 1974

Boomerang
1974 11 min 1 vues
Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of headphones on her ears. We observe her as she speaks and then hears her words relayed back to her through a delayed transmission. Remarkably eloquent for one caught in such a feedback loop, Holt provides a monologue on experiencing time, thought, and oneself through technology. She remarks, “I have a double take on myself. I am once removed from myself … we are hearing and seeing a world of double reflections and double refractions.”
TV Movie
Regrouping
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Regrouping

Dec 08, 1976

Regrouping
1976 80 min 3 vues
In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she interviews people who know them, such as Joan Jonas, the group shoots ‘artistic’ scenes of themselves – but Borden feels they aren’t fully grappling with issues of sexuality and politics. Are they a serious group – or just friends? After showing an early edit of the film to the group, its members, upset, close ranks. Undeterred, Borden incorporates the group’s arguments into another edit, filming larger groups commenting both on the original one and on consciousness-raising groups in general. Uncredited voices include those of Barbara Kruger and Kathryn Bigelow.
Documentary
Mono Lake
4

Mono Lake

Jan 01, 2004

Mono Lake
2004 20 min 1 vues
Mono Lake is a document of a unique natural environment, a "home movie" of the artists' 1968 road trip, and an intimate view of three seminal figures in the earth art movement as they interact with the Western landscapes that are so central to their work.
Up and Under
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Up and Under

May 13, 1998

Up and Under
1998 4 min 1 vues
Up and Under is an impressive piece of land art designed by American artist Nancy Holt. Up and Under was completed in 1998. The tunnels included in Up and Under are aligned with the main compass directions, and the pools of water are called “the eyes of the earth” according to a custom of the Seneca Indians.
Swamp
5.5

Swamp

Aug 01, 1969

Swamp
1969 6 min 2 vues
The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall grasses of a swamp while filming with her Bolex camera, guided only by what she can see through the camera lens and by Smithson's verbal instructions. The viewer experiences the walk from Holt's point of view, seeing through her camera lens and hearing Smithson's spoken directions. Vision is obstructed and perception distorted as they stumble through the swamp grasses.
Sun Tunnels
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Sun Tunnels

Jan 01, 1978

Sun Tunnels
1978 26 min 4 vues
Sun Tunnels documents the making of Holt's major site-specific sculptural work. Completed in 1976, the sculpture features a configuration of four concrete "tunnels" 8 feet long and 9 feet in diameter.
Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park
5

Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park

Jan 01, 1988

Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park
1988 33 min 1 vues
This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also serves as a kind of contemporary Stonehenge: once a year, on August 1 at 9:30 am, the shadows of the objects exactly align with outlines on the ground. Interviews with the artist, the architects, engineers, contractors, and the public, among others, reveal Dark Star Park as both a public sculpture and a functioning park that reclaims a blighted urban environment.
Documentary
Going Around in Circles
5

Going Around in Circles

Jan 01, 1973

Going Around in Circles
1973 15 min 1 vues
Going Around in Circles is an early video experiment in which Holt explores perception and point of view. A board in which five circular holes have been cut has been placed in front of the camera. Through the holes, which are covered and uncovered, five subjects are seen moving between five points, turning in circles, and following instructions. The artist and her subjects are heard discussing their experience of the performance, how it is perceived on the ground and through the playback monitor, and the different scales and viewpoints created.
Mono Lake
4

Mono Lake

Jan 01, 2004

Mono Lake
2004 20 min 1 vues
Mono Lake is a document of a unique natural environment, a "home movie" of the artists' 1968 road trip, and an intimate view of three seminal figures in the earth art movement as they interact with the Western landscapes that are so central to their work.
East Coast, West Coast
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East Coast, West Coast

Jan 01, 1969

East Coast, West Coast
1969 22 min 1 vues
East Coast, West Coast, Holt and Smithson's first collaborative experiment with video, takes the form of a humorous bi-coastal art dialogue. Joined by their friends Joan Jonas and Peter Campus, Holt and Smithson improvise a conversation based on opposing - and stereotypical - positions of East Coast and West Coast art of the late 1960s. Holt assumes the role of an intellectual conceptual artist from New York, while Smithson plays the laid back Californian driven by feelings and instinct. Their deadpan exchange ironically lays bare the limitations and contradictions of both sides in the debate.
Pine Barrens
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Pine Barrens

Jan 01, 1975

Pine Barrens
1975 32 min 1 vues
Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the 'Pineys,' are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of 'Bill Patton's Pine Barrens Trio' add a psychological dimension to the landscape.
Documentary
Underscan
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Underscan

Jan 01, 1974

Underscan
1974 9 min 1 vues
In Underscan, time and the visual image are compressed. A series of photographs of my Aunt Ethel's home in New Bedford, MA had been videotaped, and re-videotaped while being underscanned. (The underscanning device is a structural framework particular only to video; it compresses the picture so that the edges can be seen precisely; it does away with the variation that occurs between monitors in the amount of the image which is visible.) Because of this underscanning process, each static photo image, as it appears, changes from regular to elongated to compressed or vice versa. Excerpts from letters from my aunt spanning 10 years are condensed into 8 minutes of my voice-over audio. Certain yearly occurrences repeat in an auditory rhythm, coinciding with the cycle of yearly changes.
The Making of Amarillo Ramp
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The Making of Amarillo Ramp

Dec 01, 2013

The Making of Amarillo Ramp
2013 32 min 1 vues
The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the site of the earthwork in progress, Smithson died in a small airplane accident, along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. After Smithson's passing, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi completed Amarillo Ramp according to Smithson's specifications. This film documents the sounds and actions of the powerful machinery necessary to create an earthwork of this scale, while underscoring the human skill and personal relationships that were integral to the completion of the work.
Documentary
The Making of Amarillo Ramp
5

The Making of Amarillo Ramp

Dec 01, 2013

The Making of Amarillo Ramp
2013 32 min 1 vues
The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the site of the earthwork in progress, Smithson died in a small airplane accident, along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. After Smithson's passing, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi completed Amarillo Ramp according to Smithson's specifications. This film documents the sounds and actions of the powerful machinery necessary to create an earthwork of this scale, while underscoring the human skill and personal relationships that were integral to the completion of the work.
Documentary
The Making of Amarillo Ramp
5

The Making of Amarillo Ramp

Dec 01, 2013

The Making of Amarillo Ramp
2013 32 min 1 vues
The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the site of the earthwork in progress, Smithson died in a small airplane accident, along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. After Smithson's passing, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi completed Amarillo Ramp according to Smithson's specifications. This film documents the sounds and actions of the powerful machinery necessary to create an earthwork of this scale, while underscoring the human skill and personal relationships that were integral to the completion of the work.
Documentary
Utah Sequences
5

Utah Sequences

Mar 01, 1970

Utah Sequences
1970 9 min 1 vues
The film explores the environment—manmade and natural—at Rozel Point on the north arm of Great Salt Lake. The film captures wood cabins, an amphibious vehicle, and remnants of oil drilling that have largely disappeared from the site today, but the tar seeps and salt-encrusted pelicans so present in this film remain a constant at the site.
Documentary
Zeroing In
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Zeroing In

Mar 03, 1973

Zeroing In
1973 31 min 1 vues
Positioned in an elevated vantage point, Holt uses five apertures in a black board set before the camera to slowly reveal a controlled, abstracted view of an urban landscape. Discussing this New York vista with Ted Castle, Holt strategically transforms passive reception into an interactive exchange.
Revolve
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Revolve

Jan 01, 1977

Revolve
1977 77 min 1 vues
Using multiple camera angles and minimal repetitions to modulate her friend David Wheeler's personal narrative of his battle with leukemia, Holt presents his physical illness as a site for metaphysical and aesthetic reflection. Holt's editing procedure both frees Wheeler's narrative and closes in on it, effectively projecting the personal into the conceptual.
Swamp
5.5

Swamp

Aug 01, 1969

Swamp
1969 6 min 2 vues
The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall grasses of a swamp while filming with her Bolex camera, guided only by what she can see through the camera lens and by Smithson's verbal instructions. The viewer experiences the walk from Holt's point of view, seeing through her camera lens and hearing Smithson's spoken directions. Vision is obstructed and perception distorted as they stumble through the swamp grasses.
The Making of Amarillo Ramp
5

The Making of Amarillo Ramp

Dec 01, 2013

The Making of Amarillo Ramp
2013 32 min 1 vues
The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the site of the earthwork in progress, Smithson died in a small airplane accident, along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. After Smithson's passing, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi completed Amarillo Ramp according to Smithson's specifications. This film documents the sounds and actions of the powerful machinery necessary to create an earthwork of this scale, while underscoring the human skill and personal relationships that were integral to the completion of the work.
Documentary
Mangrove Ring
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Mangrove Ring

Jun 01, 1971

Mangrove Ring
1971 3 min 1 vues
Mangrove Ring features a sculpture Smithson created in the ocean using mangrove seedlings while traveling in Florida. Off the coast of Summerland Key Smithson planted a ring of mangroves with the intent to grow an island over a three-year period.
Documentary
Bob with Books
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Bob with Books

Jan 01, 1971

Bob with Books
1971 3 min 1 vues
Shot on the roof of 799 Greenwich St., New York, Bob with Books is a short silent film by Nancy Holt on her husband, artist Robert Smithson, two years before he passed away.
Fire Film
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Fire Film

Jan 01, 1973

Fire Film
1973 3 min 1 vues
Short film by Nancy Holt, filming a fire with her friends.
Documentary