Movies

  • 2015
    Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog

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    Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse...

    Heart of a Dog
  • 1975
    Conical Intersect

    Conical Intersect

    Conical Intersect

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    “I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street...

    Conical Intersect
  • 1972
    Food

    Food

    Food

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    This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food...

    Food
  • 1976
    City Slivers

    City Slivers

    City Slivers

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    For City Slivers, which was made with a camera borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg, Matta-Clark affixed vertical matte strips in front of an...

    City Slivers
  • 1973
    Clockshower

    Clockshower

    Clockshower

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    In this film of one of his most daring performances, Matta-Clark climbed to the top of the Clocktower in New York and washed, shaved and brushed his...

    Clockshower
  • 1973
    Sauna View

    Sauna View

    Sauna View

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    Matta-Clark made a video of his friends having a sauna; he later cut a section of the sauna to reveal the structure of the wall.

    Sauna View
  • 1971
    Chinatown Voyeur

    Chinatown Voyeur

    Chinatown Voyeur

    01971HD

    This space and texture work, created specifically for video, is a tour of the skyline and domestic interiors of New York's Chinatown.

    Chinatown Voyeur
  • 1971
    Fire Child

    Fire Child

    Fire Child

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    In 1971 Matta-Clark produced works for the exhibition Brooklyn Bridge Event. This film records his process of making a sculpture - a small wall made...

    Fire Child
  • 1977
    Office Baroque

    Office Baroque

    Office Baroque

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    Matta-Clark made a cut in a five-story commercial building located in front of the Steen, a tourist spot in Antwerp. (On Matta-Clark's death shortly...

    Office Baroque
  • 1972
    Open House

    Open House

    Open House

    01972HD

    In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York?s SoHo district. He collected discarded...

    Open House
  • 1972
    Automation House

    Automation House

    Automation House

    01972HD

    Automation House 1972, 32 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video This tape is an exercise in spatial perception, using mirror reflections of...

    Automation House
  • 1976
    Substrait (Underground Dailies)

    Substrait (Underground Dailies)

    Substrait (Underground Dailies)

    01976HD

    In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central...

    Substrait (Underground Dailies)
  • 1975
    Day's End

    Day's End

    Day's End

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    In May 1972, Matta-Clark worked on an abandoned pier in New York for two months, where he cut sections of the door, floor, and roof. Camera: Betsy...

    Day's End
  • 1971
    Tree Dance

    Tree Dance

    Tree Dance

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    For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance...

    Tree Dance
  • 1972
    Fresh Kill

    Fresh Kill

    Fresh Kill

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    This film records the complete process of the destruction of Matta-Clark's truck (which he called "Herman Meydag") by a bulldozer in a rubbish dump....

    Fresh Kill
  • 1974
    Splitting

    Splitting

    Splitting

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    For his 'Splitting' project, Matta-Clark found a house in Englewood, NJ (322 Humphrey Street to be precise) set for demolition, and bisected it...

    Splitting
  • 1977
    Paris Underground

    Paris Underground

    Paris Underground

    01977HD

    In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car...

    Paris Underground
  • 1975
    Conical Intersect

    Conical Intersect

    Conical Intersect

    01975HD

    Matta-Clark was invited to create Conical Intersect for the Paris Biennale in 1975. For this piece, he cut a giant conical shape into two adjacent...

    Conical Intersect
  • 1976
    The Wall

    The Wall

    The Wall

    01976HD

    In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown...

    The Wall
  • 1974
    Bingo/Ninths

    Bingo/Ninths

    Bingo/Ninths

    01974HD

    In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into...

    Bingo/Ninths