Vito Acconci Movies
- 2016
Burden
Burden5.92016HD
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.
- 2008
Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the Rocks5.72008HD
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...
- 1991
The Golden Boat
The Golden Boat6.11991HD
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...
- 2013
Revenge of the Mekons
Revenge of the Mekons72013HD
Documentary about the Mekons.
- 1980
Journeys from Berlin/1971
Journeys from Berlin/197191980HD
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
- 1973
Home Movies
Home Movies01973HD
In this powerful "meta-document," Acconci sits in the dark with his back to a screen, onto which are projected slides of his past works, in...
- 1971
Second Hand
Second Hand01971HD
Documentation of an evening of three simultaneous performances (Terry Fox, Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci), in January 1971. In each alcove a light...
- 2007
Seven Easy Pieces
Seven Easy Pieces22007HD
For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own,...
- 1981
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s01981HD
The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture,...
- 1999
Steven Holl: The Body in Space
Steven Holl: The Body in Space01999HD
"Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of...
- 1972
Seedbed
Seedbed01972HD
“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...
- 1981
How to Fly
How to Fly01981HD
With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize...
- 2006
You're Going to Die!
You're Going to Die!02006HD
"You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts...
- 2009
The Art of Time
The Art of Time02009HD
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
- 1971
Remote Control
Remote Control01971HD
The two-channel piece Remote Control is an exercise in manipulation and control between artist and subject, male and female. On separate channels,...
- 1971
Centers
Centers01971HD
Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.
- 1970
Two Takes
Two Takes01970HD
Acconci oftens performs controlled actions as if he had entered into a contractual agreement to test his physical limitations. In Grass/Mouth,...
- 1970
Gargle/Spit Piece
Gargle/Spit Piece01970HD
The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from...
- 1970
Flour/Breath Piece
Flour/Breath Piece01970HD
The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.
- 1970
Digging Piece
Digging Piece01970HD
Standing alone among beach dunes, Acconci begins to kick at the sand below him. Over the course of the film's ten minutes, this repeated action...