Gordon Matta-Clark Movies
- 2015
Heart of a Dog
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Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse...
- 1971
Chinatown Voyeur
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This space and texture work, created specifically for video, is a tour of the skyline and domestic interiors of New York's Chinatown.
- 1973
Clockshower
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In this film of one of his most daring performances, Matta-Clark climbed to the top of the Clocktower in New York and washed, shaved and brushed his...
- 1975
Conical Intersect
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“I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street...
- 1971
Tree Dance
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For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance...
- 1973
Sauna View
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Matta-Clark made a video of his friends having a sauna; he later cut a section of the sauna to reveal the structure of the wall.
- 1975
Conical Intersect
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Matta-Clark was invited to create Conical Intersect for the Paris Biennale in 1975. For this piece, he cut a giant conical shape into two adjacent...
- 1977
Paris Underground
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In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car...
- 1976
The Wall
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In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown...
- 1977
Office Baroque
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Matta-Clark made a cut in a five-story commercial building located in front of the Steen, a tourist spot in Antwerp. (On Matta-Clark's death shortly...
- 1971
Fire Child
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In 1971 Matta-Clark produced works for the exhibition Brooklyn Bridge Event. This film records his process of making a sculpture - a small wall made...
- 1972
Open House
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In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York?s SoHo district. He collected discarded...
- 1972
Food
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This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food...
- 1974
Splitting
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For his 'Splitting' project, Matta-Clark found a house in Englewood, NJ (322 Humphrey Street to be precise) set for demolition, and bisected it...
- 1972
Fresh Kill
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This film records the complete process of the destruction of Matta-Clark's truck (which he called "Herman Meydag") by a bulldozer in a rubbish dump....
- 1974
Bingo/Ninths
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In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into...
- 1976
City Slivers
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For City Slivers, which was made with a camera borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg, Matta-Clark affixed vertical matte strips in front of an...
- 1972
Automation House
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Automation House 1972, 32 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video This tape is an exercise in spatial perception, using mirror reflections of...
- 1976
Substrait (Underground Dailies)
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In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central...
- 1975
Day's End
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In May 1972, Matta-Clark worked on an abandoned pier in New York for two months, where he cut sections of the door, floor, and roof. Camera: Betsy...