Richard Serra Movies

  • 1975
    Keep Busy

    Keep Busy

    Keep Busy

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    The protagonists’ astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated...

    Keep Busy
  • 1974
    Boomerang

    Boomerang

    Boomerang

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    Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of...

    Boomerang
  • 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
    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
  • 1974
    Match-Match Their Courage

    Match-Match Their Courage

    Match-Match Their Courage

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    Artists Nancy Holt and Charlemagne Palestine attempt to have a conversation with one another while their voices are distorted.

    Match-Match Their Courage
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

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    CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1969
    Tina Turning

    Tina Turning

    Tina Turning

    01969HD

    A short film by Richard Serra

    Tina Turning
  • 1972
    China Girl

    China Girl

    China Girl

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    Made in collaboration with Gerry Schum

    China Girl
  • 1968
    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

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    In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

    Hands Scraping
  • 2013
    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp

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    The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...

    The Making of Amarillo Ramp
  • 1971
    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

    01971HD

    Soundtrack by Philip Glass

    Anxious Automation
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2010
    How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?

    How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?

    How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?

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    The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through...

    How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?
  • 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
  • 2018
    On The Wings of Brancusi

    On The Wings of Brancusi

    On The Wings of Brancusi

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    Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on...

    On The Wings of Brancusi
  • 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
  • 1974
    Prisoner's Dilemma

    Prisoner's Dilemma

    Prisoner's Dilemma

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    A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a...

    Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 2007
    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

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    "Film Portrait of Richard Serra was shot during the making of The Camera: Je but I felt that the footage showed such complicity between Richard and...

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
  • 1971
    Veil

    Veil

    Veil

    01971HD

    Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.

    Veil
  • 1976
    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

    81976HD

    “…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes...

    Railroad Turnbridge