Vito Acconci Movies

  • 2016
    Burden

    Burden

    Burden

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    A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

    Burden
  • 2008
    Chelsea on the Rocks

    Chelsea on the Rocks

    Chelsea on the Rocks

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    Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...

    Chelsea on the Rocks
  • 1991
    The Golden Boat

    The Golden Boat

    The Golden Boat

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    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...

    The Golden Boat
  • 2013
    Revenge of the Mekons

    Revenge of the Mekons

    Revenge of the Mekons

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    Documentary about the Mekons.

    Revenge of the Mekons
  • 1980
    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

    Journeys from Berlin/1971

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    An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

    Journeys from Berlin/1971
  • 1973
    Home Movies

    Home Movies

    Home Movies

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    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...

    Home Movies
  • 1971
    Second Hand

    Second Hand

    Second Hand

    01971HD

    Documentation of an evening of three simultaneous performances (Terry Fox, Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci), in January 1971. In each alcove a light...

    Second Hand
  • 2007
    Seven Easy Pieces

    Seven Easy Pieces

    Seven Easy Pieces

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    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,...

    Seven Easy Pieces
  • 1981
    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

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    The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture,...

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
  • 1999
    Steven Holl: The Body in Space

    Steven Holl: The Body in Space

    Steven Holl: The Body in Space

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    "Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of...

    Steven Holl: The Body in Space
  • 1972
    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    01972HD

    “In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

    Seedbed
  • 1981
    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    How to Fly

    01981HD

    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...

    How to Fly
  • 2006
    You're Going to Die!

    You're Going to Die!

    You're Going to Die!

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    "You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts...

    You're Going to Die!
  • 2009
    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

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    Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

    The Art of Time
  • 1971
    Remote Control

    Remote Control

    Remote Control

    01971HD

    The two-channel piece Remote Control is an exercise in manipulation and control between artist and subject, male and female. On separate channels,...

    Remote Control
  • 1971
    Centers

    Centers

    Centers

    01971HD

    Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.

    Centers
  • 1970
    Two Takes

    Two Takes

    Two Takes

    01970HD

    Acconci oftens performs controlled actions as if he had entered into a contractual agreement to test his physical limitations. In Grass/Mouth,...

    Two Takes
  • 1970
    Gargle/Spit Piece

    Gargle/Spit Piece

    Gargle/Spit Piece

    01970HD

    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...

    Gargle/Spit Piece
  • 1970
    Flour/Breath Piece

    Flour/Breath Piece

    Flour/Breath Piece

    01970HD

    The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.

    Flour/Breath Piece
  • 1970
    Digging Piece

    Digging Piece

    Digging Piece

    01970HD

    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...

    Digging Piece