Movies: Anthony McCall

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

LINE DESCRIBING A CONE is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded when it strikes the flat surface (the screen). It is...

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Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We print anything - In the cards (1977) Schneemann documented dreams, advice and conversations relating to her shifti...

This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and psychoanalysis in film. Implicitly engaged in a critical dialogue with filmmakers like Yvonne Rainer and Jean-...

A digital re-make and reinterpretation of McCall’s landmark 1973 thirty-minute film installation Line Describing a Cone....

A flat blade of light rotating from a fixed central axis....

This experimental "film" consists of an empty room with a bare lightbulb, and windows covered with a translucent material, for a duration of 24 hours. It is not necessary for visitors to stay for the entire duration - they can come and go as they ple...

The first in the new Solid Light film series. Like Four Projected Movements almost thirty years earlier, the installation is projected against a wall; the piece was constructed from back waves that pass imperceptibly through one another to create a m...

A single fifteen minute quarter of a triangular edge of light through 90 degrees, along one wall, becomes four distinct architectural interventions through the intervention of the projector....

Landscape for White Squares features individuals emerging out of a dense fog, carrying large, square, white sheets....

McCall’s digital animation presents a slowly shifting beam of “solid light” whose physical properties become outlined within the haze-filled space of the gallery and are further enhanced through viewer interaction. Exploring light across space and ti...

Three male voices dissect one edition of The New York Times through a series of locked-off shots, revealing the prejudice and latent content of news and advertisements, reading images as texts and presenting text as an image....

For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch containers of flammable material across a field. McCall describes it: "Over a three-year period, I did a numbe...