Richard Serra Movies

  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

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    CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

    Cremaster 3
  • 2008
    Richard Serra: Man of Steel

    Richard Serra: Man of Steel

    Richard Serra: Man of Steel

    02008HD

    Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel...

    Richard Serra: Man of Steel
  • 1971
    Paul Revere

    Paul Revere

    Paul Revere

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    The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreomania, a performance by Joan Jonas

    Paul Revere
  • 2018
    On The Wings of Brancusi

    On The Wings of Brancusi

    On The Wings of Brancusi

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    Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on...

    On The Wings of Brancusi
  • 1968
    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

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    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...

    Hands Scraping
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2007
    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

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    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
  • 1972
    China Girl

    China Girl

    China Girl

    01972HD

    Made in collaboration with Gerry Schum

    China Girl
  • 1971
    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

    01971HD

    Soundtrack by Philip Glass

    Anxious Automation
  • 1975
    Keep Busy

    Keep Busy

    Keep Busy

    01975HD

    The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...

    Keep Busy
  • 1974
    Boomerang

    Boomerang

    Boomerang

    01974HD

    Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of...

    Boomerang
  • 1971
    Color Aid

    Color Aid

    Color Aid

    101971HD

    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...

    Color Aid
  • 1976
    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

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    “…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes...

    Railroad Turnbridge
  • 1979
    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    101979HD

    Serra’s film about the production of his sculpture Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (1977) at the Henrichshütte Hattingen steelworks in...

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk
  • 1974
    Prisoner's Dilemma

    Prisoner's Dilemma

    Prisoner's Dilemma

    101974HD

    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...

    Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1978
    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World

    01978HD

    The Masters of Modern Sculpture series concludes with a look at post- World War II America, where sculpture became a deeply innovative art form....

    Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
  • 2013
    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

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    The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp
  • 1973
    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

    101973HD

    Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...

    Television Delivers People
  • 2007
    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    02007HD

    "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...

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
  • 1968
    Hand Catching Lead

    Hand Catching Lead

    Hand Catching Lead

    81968HD

    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...

    Hand Catching Lead