Richard Serra

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Keep Busy
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Keep Busy

Aug 11, 1975

Keep Busy
1975 44 min 1 vues
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue, this film is reminiscent of the playful and parodying elements of the Beat fantasy Pull My Daisy. The interweaving of documentary and fiction with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue presents an absurd buzz of activity reminiscent of Beckett’s abstract comic grotesque.
A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
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A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

Jan 01, 2007

A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
2007 6 min 1 vues
"Film Portrait of Richard Serra was shot during the making of The Camera: Je but I felt that the footage showed such complicity between Richard and me that I decided it was a film on its own. I shot the film title in 1977 but only finished the film in 2007 in digital video. Richard and I had met in Rome in 1972, and in January 1974 I moved into the building where he had lived and worked since the 1960s, so we were neighbors. We liked each other and the film shows that."
Hand Catching Lead
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Hand Catching Lead

Jan 01, 1968

Hand Catching Lead
1968 3 min 4 vues
Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes as it tries to catch them, and when it succeeds, immediately lets them go again.
Hands Scraping
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Hands Scraping

Jan 01, 1968

Hands Scraping
1968 4 min 2 vues
In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture.
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
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Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Nov 25, 2008

Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008 49 min 1 vues
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselves by being within it. To this end, a Japanese family are reminded of the Temples of Kyoto, a Londoner finds sanctuary in the Serra near Liverpool Street station, and most movingly, a Holocaust survivor sees one piece as a wall separating the living from the dead. Contributors include Chuck Close, Philip Glass and Glenn D Lowry, Director of MoMA.
Documentary
Color Aid
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Color Aid

Jan 01, 1971

Color Aid
1971 36 min 1 vues
Like the three "Hands" films by Richard Serra (1968), the subject of "Color Aid" are fingers as actors of real time activity. Monochrome colour cards lying on top of each other and filling the whole screen are being pulled away individually with a swishing sound by a single finger, each time bringing a new colour into view.
Here Is Always Somewhere Else
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Here Is Always Somewhere Else

Jun 16, 2007

Here Is Always Somewhere Else
2007 78 min 3 vues
The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic. As seen through the eyes of fellow emigrant filmmaker René Daalder, the picture becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art films as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean.
Documentary
Cremaster 3
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Cremaster 3

May 15, 2002

Cremaster 3
2002 182 min 32 vues
L'ambition et son pouvoir sont au centre de Cremaster 3. L'action se déroule dans le Chrysler Building à New York, dans les années 1929-1930, au moment de sa construction. Matthew Barney superpose l'architecture du building au rite d'initiation des francs-maçons. Chez ces derniers, la progression se fait en trois grandes étapes (apprenti / compagnon / maître) et est marquée par une série d'épreuves. Seule une volonté inflexible permet d'accéder de la base au plus haut niveau et d'atteindre la perfection qui rapproche de Dieu. Cremaster 3 s'ouvre et se clôt par la légende celte de la formation des îles de la mer d'Irlande. Deux géants irlandais et un Ecossais vont s'affronter. Le plus petit d'entre eux a recours à la ruse pour l'emporter.
Drama
On The Wings of Brancusi
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On The Wings of Brancusi

Dec 31, 2018

On The Wings of Brancusi
2018 52 min 1 vues
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on a generation of contemporary American artists. Insights into Brancusi’s legacy are presented by Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, and Joel Shapiro, with additional commentary on Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Isamu Noguchi,and Claes Oldenburg. In 1995, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Director Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, asked Checkerboard to document the PMA’s acclaimed retrospective on Brancusi for the Museum’s archive. The resulting footage became the genesis of the documentary.
Documentary
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
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Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

Dec 31, 1978

Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
1978 58 min 1 vues
The Masters of Modern Sculpture series concludes with a look at post- World War II America, where sculpture became a deeply innovative art form. Using the objects at their disposal and the inspiration surrounding them, artists such as George Rickey, Claes Oldenburg, and Louise Nevelson cast sculptor in a new light. The New World observes the sculptors creatively utilizing wood, metals, and junkyard finds, bringing forth lively and shocking work. America's remote spaces, discarded objects and abundant materials enabled them to add to the concepts of European modernism in daringly unique ways.
Documentary
Norman Foster
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Norman Foster

Oct 08, 2010

Norman Foster
2010 78 min 10 vues
À travers un voyage dans de nombreux pays, ce documentaire suit l’ascension de Norman Foster, né dans une famille populaire de Manchester et reconnu aujourd’hui comme l’un des architectes les plus brillants de son époque.
Documentary
The MoMA Retrospective: Charlie Rose Interview
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The MoMA Retrospective: Charlie Rose Interview

May 06, 2007

The MoMA Retrospective: Charlie Rose Interview
2007 108 min 1 vues
Charlie Rose joins sculptor Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art for a walk-through of a retrospective of the past four decades of Serra's work. Serra describes the destruction of his public sculpture "Tilted Arc" and reflects on his early artistic influences. Guest host Michael Kimmelman talks to Hal Foster, chairman of the art and archaeology department at Princeton University, about Serra's work.
Hand Catching Lead
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Hand Catching Lead

Jan 01, 1968

Hand Catching Lead
1968 3 min 4 vues
Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes as it tries to catch them, and when it succeeds, immediately lets them go again.
Television Delivers People
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Television Delivers People

Mar 30, 1973

Television Delivers People
1973 6 min 1 vues
Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power—the corporations that mantain and profit from the status quo. While canned Muzak plays, a scrolling text denounces the corporate masquerade of commercial television to reveal the structure of profit that greases the wheels of the media industry. Television emerges as little more than a insidious sponsor for the corporate engines of the world. By appropriating the medium he is criticizing—using television, in effect, against itself—Serra employs a characteristic strategy of early, counter-corporate video collectives—a strategy that remains integral to video artists committed to a critical dismantling of the media’s political and ideological stranglehold.
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
Hands Scraping
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Hands Scraping

Jan 01, 1968

Hands Scraping
1968 4 min 2 vues
In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture.
Railroad Turnbridge
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Railroad Turnbridge

May 12, 1976

Railroad Turnbridge
1976 18 min 1 vues
“…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes parallel, sometimes in opposition, frame the landscape which surrounds them. A shot of the landscape seen through the rectangles of the bridge’s opening, the bridge [becomes], in movement, a giant extension of the camera viewfinder…” Amy Taubin, Soho News
Color Aid
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Color Aid

Jan 01, 1971

Color Aid
1971 36 min 1 vues
Like the three "Hands" films by Richard Serra (1968), the subject of "Color Aid" are fingers as actors of real time activity. Monochrome colour cards lying on top of each other and filling the whole screen are being pulled away individually with a swishing sound by a single finger, each time bringing a new colour into view.
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
Frame
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Frame

Jan 01, 1969

Frame
1969 22 min 1 vues
In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see Serra's hands methodically measuring and marking the boundaries of the film frame, followed by the projected image of a blank surface whose perimeter is similarly marked. The surface is then moved aside to reveal a window which looks out upon a bustling city street. The In the final stage, Serra interacts with the projected image of the window, remeasuring and remarking its borders.
Hands Tied
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Hands Tied

Dec 31, 1968

Hands Tied
1968 3 min 1 vues
A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint
Paul Revere
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Paul Revere

Dec 31, 1971

Paul Revere
1971 9 min 1 vues
The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreomania, a performance by Joan Jonas
Prisoner's Dilemma
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Prisoner's Dilemma

Dec 31, 1974

Prisoner's Dilemma
1974 45 min 1 vues
A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a problem in game theory, a non-zero-sum game, in which both players can win or lose at the same time, one can win more than the other, and one can win at the others expense. Serra and Bell have used game theory as a way of dealing with genres of commercial TV: cops and robbers in the first part, and a quiz program in the second.
Steelmill/Stahlwerk
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Steelmill/Stahlwerk

Dec 31, 1979

Steelmill/Stahlwerk
1979 28 min 1 vues
Serra’s film about the production of his sculpture Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (1977) at the Henrichshütte Hattingen steelworks in the Ruhr Valley, begun roughly one year before the first major wave of strikes in the German steel industry since the war, combines conventions from documentary film, agitprop, black-and-white photographic studies and architectural film.
Veil
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Veil

Dec 31, 1971

Veil
1971 6 min 1 vues
Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.