Richard Serra Movies
- 2002
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,...
- 2008
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Richard Serra: Man of Steel02008HD
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel...
- 1971
Paul Revere
Paul Revere01971HD
The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreomania, a performance by Joan Jonas
- 2018
On The Wings of Brancusi
On The Wings of Brancusi02018HD
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on...
- 1968
Hands Scraping
Hands Scraping81968HD
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...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 2007
Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Here Is Always Somewhere Else62007HD
The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...
- 1972
China Girl
China Girl01972HD
Made in collaboration with Gerry Schum
- 1971
Anxious Automation
Anxious Automation01971HD
Soundtrack by Philip Glass
- 1975
Keep Busy
Keep Busy01975HD
The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...
- 1974
Boomerang
Boomerang01974HD
Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of...
- 1971
Color Aid
Color Aid101971HD
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...
- 1976
Railroad Turnbridge
Railroad Turnbridge101976HD
“…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes...
- 1979
Steelmill/Stahlwerk
Steelmill/Stahlwerk101979HD
Serra’s film about the production of his sculpture Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (1977) at the Henrichshütte Hattingen steelworks in...
- 1974
Prisoner's Dilemma
Prisoner's Dilemma101974HD
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...
- 1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World01978HD
The Masters of Modern Sculpture series concludes with a look at post- World War II America, where sculpture became a deeply innovative art form....
- 2013
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...
- 1973
Television Delivers People
Television Delivers People101973HD
Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...
- 2007
A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
A Film Portrait of Richard Serra02007HD
"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...
- 1968
Hand Catching Lead
Hand Catching Lead81968HD
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...