Vito Acconci Movies
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You're Going to Die!
You're Going to Die!MOVIE
"You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts prose by Timo...
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the RocksMOVIE
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an un...
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Steven Holl: The Body in Space
Steven Holl: The Body in SpaceMOVIE
"Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of his...
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Burden
BurdenMOVIE
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.
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How to Fly
How to FlyMOVIE
A completely nonlinear collage of unconnected scenes.
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Seedbed
SeedbedMOVIE
“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he masturbated eig...
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Journeys from Berlin/1971
Journeys from Berlin/1971MOVIE
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Revenge of the Mekons
Revenge of the MekonsMOVIE
Documentary about the Mekons.
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Undertone
UndertoneMOVIE
"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl rubbi...
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Centers
CentersMOVIE
Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.
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Pryings
PryingsMOVIE
A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of male/fema...
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Flour/Breath Piece
Flour/Breath PieceMOVIE
The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.
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Digging Piece
Digging PieceMOVIE
Standing alone among beach dunes, Acconci begins to kick at the sand below him. Over the course of the film's ten minutes, this repeated action displa...
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Two Takes
Two TakesMOVIE
Acconci oftens performs controlled actions as if he had entered into a contractual agreement to test his physical limitations. In Grass/Mouth, Acconci...
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Gargle/Spit Piece
Gargle/Spit PieceMOVIE
The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from...
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Conversions 1
Conversions 1MOVIE
In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations.
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Three Adaptation Studies
Three Adaptation StudiesMOVIE
Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him from...
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Remote Control
Remote ControlMOVIE
The two-channel piece Remote Control is an exercise in manipulation and control between artist and subject, male and female. On separate channels, the...
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Association Area
Association AreaMOVIE
This early performance tape is an example of what Acconci has termed his "quasi-ESP exercises," in which he explores mental concentration and intuitio...
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Claim Excerpts
Claim ExcerptsMOVIE
A documentation of one of Acconci's most notorious performances, Claim Excerpts is a highly confrontational work, an exercise in self-induced, heighte...