Movies
- 2013
Revenge of the Mekons
Revenge of the Mekons72013HD
Documentary about the Mekons.
- 1981
How to Fly
How to Fly01981HD
A completely nonlinear collage of unconnected scenes.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 1980
Journeys from Berlin/1971
Journeys from Berlin/197191980HD
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
- 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...
- 1971
Conversions 2
Conversions 201971HD
In Conversions II, the second in a trilogy of films interrogating the rigidity of gender binarism, the artist attempts to feminize his unquestionably...
- 1972
Undertone
Undertone01972HD
"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl...
- 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
Applications
Applications01970HD
A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring...
- 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,...
- 1972
Seedbed
Seedbed01972HD
“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 1973
Reception Room
Reception Room01973HD
Acconci lies naked on a gurney-like table, rocking back and forth as a tape-loop of his voice describes his anxieties about exposing his body and his...
- 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
Rubbings
Rubbings01970HD
"Acconci caresses his torso, then crushes cockroaches into his stomach and rubs them into his skin." - Electronic Arts Intermix
- 1970
Run Off
Run Off01970HD
A ten minute super-8mm work from 1970 by Vito Acconci.
- 1970
Open-Close
Open-Close01970HD
In this performance based tape, Acconci uses his body to explore notions of opening and closure.