Richard Serra Movies

  • 1968
    Hand Lead Fulcrum

    Hand Lead Fulcrum

    Hand Lead Fulcrum

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    Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

    Hand Lead Fulcrum
  • 1973
    Surprise Attack

    Surprise Attack

    Surprise Attack

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    A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.

    Surprise Attack
  • 1971
    Color Aid

    Color Aid

    Color Aid

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    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
  • 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
  • 1971
    Veil

    Veil

    Veil

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    Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.

    Veil
  • 1973
    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

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    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
  • 1969
    Frame

    Frame

    Frame

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    In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see...

    Frame
  • 1979
    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

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

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk