Vito Acconci Movies
- 1980
Journeys from Berlin/1971
Journeys from Berlin/197191980HD
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
- 2008
Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the Rocks5.8892008HD
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...
- 1981
How to Fly
How to Fly01981HD
A completely nonlinear collage of unconnected scenes.
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 1970
Corrections
Corrections01970HD
"Unavailable until recently, Corrections is Acconci's first single-channel video. Back to the camera, with only his head and bare shoulders visible,...
- 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...
- 1970
Filling Up Space
Filling Up Space01970HD
"A view of a brick wall: the artist enters and walks from one side to the other, back and forth, row after row." - Electronic Arts Intermix
- 2013
Revenge of the Mekons
Revenge of the Mekons72013HD
Documentary about the Mekons.
- 1972
Anchors
Anchors01972HD
A super-8mm work documenting Acconci's audio installation piece in the Sonnabend gallery in 1972 of the same name.
- 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,...
- 1973
Theme Song
Theme Song01973HD
In Theme Song, Acconci uses video as close-up to establish a perversely intimate relation with the viewer, creating a personal space in which to talk...
- 1971
Centers
Centers01971HD
Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.
- 1970
See Through
See Through01970HD
"Acconci spars with his close-up image in a mirror. He then breaks the mirror, destroying his image." - Electronic Arts Intermix
- 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...
- 1977
The Red Tapes
The Red Tapes01977HD
A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...
- 1970
Run Off
Run Off01970HD
A ten minute super-8mm work from 1970 by Vito Acconci.
- 1974
Open Book
Open Book01974HD
Acconci's open mouth is framed by the camera in an extreme close-up, bringing the viewer uncomfortably close. A desperate sense of strained urgency...