John Baldessari Movies

From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s (b.1931) varied...

The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.

In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making....

Baldessari progresses from simple, static images, such as a rock in an empty room, to complex narrative scenes, like a woman eavesdropping on her...

Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his career, and provides clues to...

A film by John Baldessari

Baldessari introduces eight news photos to Ed Henderson — ranging in subject matter from geese at the zoo to an accidental electrocution...

“[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential...

In Walking Forward-Running Past, Baldessari ingeniously employs photography and video to examine and ultimately deconstruct film. In this conceptual...

In 1971, Baldessari was commissioned by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to create an original, on-site work. Unable to make the...

A film by John Baldessari

'Folding Hat' is a deadpan conceptual exercise that represents a dashed attempt to rescue an object from the meaning assigned to it. Whistling an...

Baldessari has Ed Henderson examine obscure movie stills and attempt to reconstruct the films' narratives.

John Baldessari is today known as one of the leading conceptual artists of his generation, using found or appropriated images and exploring the...

In a sly twist on the methodology of the 18th-century "philosophes" who classified the laws and history of the world in massive encyclopedias,...

Script is the opposite of an improvisational exercise. Seven couples, all amateurs, are handed pages from random movie scripts and instructed to...

A tribute to fellow artist Sol LeWitt, Baldessari sings lines from LeWitt's thirty-five statements on conceptual art to the tune of popular songs.

A series of 19 short parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. Often conveyed through conscious misinformation,...

A short film by John Baldessari

Contemporaneous to his best-known video works, these Super-8mm films represent Baldessari's conceptual engagement with motion picture film, pointing...