Movies

  • 1993
    Blutclip

    Blutclip

    Blutclip

    11993HD

    Rist's body is the canvas in this surreal montage. Unflinching displays of the artist's own menstrual blood are juxtaposed with images of gemstones,...

    Blutclip
  • 1992
    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

    11992HD

    The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as...

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill
  • 1992
    Pickelporno

    Pickelporno

    Pickelporno

    5.71992HD

    In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual...

    Pickelporno
  • 2002
    Lullaby

    Lullaby

    Lullaby

    02002HD

    ‘It’s springtime’, a little bird stealing the filaments of my window screen reminded me this morning. ‘The sun in shining,...

    Lullaby
  • 1987
    Sexy Sad I

    Sexy Sad I

    Sexy Sad I

    11987HD

    In this détourned music video, Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the form and of pop culture in general....

    Sexy Sad I
  • 2008
    Stories on Human Rights

    Stories on Human Rights

    Stories on Human Rights

    2.72008HD

    20 short films about human rights.

    Stories on Human Rights
  • 2009
    Pepperminta

    Pepperminta

    Pepperminta

    6.32009HD

    Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's...

    Pepperminta
  • 2009
    The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist

    The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist

    The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist

    02009HD

    The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her studio in Zurich as well as at the Museum of Modern...

    The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist
  • 2016
    Pixel Forest

    Pixel Forest

    Pixel Forest

    02016HD

    Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three...

    Pixel Forest
  • 2007
    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    62007HD

    The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else
  • 1996
    Mother Floor

    Mother Floor

    Mother Floor

    01996HD

    A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation...

    Mother Floor
  • 1999
    Rainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)

    Rainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)

    Rainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)

    01999HD

    This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

    Rainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)
  • 1996
    Sip My Ocean

    Sip My Ocean

    Sip My Ocean

    01996HD

    Sip My Ocean, a video projected as two mirrored reflections on adjoining walls, offers a kaleidoscopic view of an idyllic underwater paradise, with a...

    Sip My Ocean
  • 1988
    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

    61988HD

    Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing...

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes
  • 1986
    I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much

    I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much

    I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much

    41986HD

    This video work was made while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition...

    I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much
  • 2023
    Welling Color Island West

    Welling Color Island West

    Welling Color Island West

    02023HD

    A Persian carpet melts, dragon fly wings transform into wild leaves, we glide under giant poppies, a naked giant does yoga over us.

    Welling Color Island West
  • 2020
    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Amaranta Gómez Regalado (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_E)

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Amaranta Gómez Regalado (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_E)

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Amaranta Gómez Regalado (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_E)

    02020HD

    Life and fireworks seen through a window.

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Amaranta Gómez Regalado (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_E)
  • 2020
    Peeping Freedom Pavilion for Sojourner Truth (Apollomat horizontal screen PFP)

    Peeping Freedom Pavilion for Sojourner Truth (Apollomat horizontal screen PFP)

    Peeping Freedom Pavilion for Sojourner Truth (Apollomat horizontal screen PFP)

    02020HD

    Love, memory, nature, and intimacy collide.

    Peeping Freedom Pavilion for Sojourner Truth (Apollomat horizontal screen PFP)
  • 2014
    Worry Will Vanish Horizon

    Worry Will Vanish Horizon

    Worry Will Vanish Horizon

    02014HD

    For her London exhibition, ‘Worry Will Vanish’, Rist has transformed the gallery into a fully immersive, sensory environment. Projected...

    Worry Will Vanish Horizon
  • 2020
    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Osakabe Sayaka (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_D)

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Osakabe Sayaka (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_D)

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Osakabe Sayaka (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_D)

    02020HD

    Sight and sex viewed through a window.

    Peeping Freedom Shutters for Osakabe Sayaka (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_D)