Anthony McCall Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1978
    Argument

    Argument

    Argument

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    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...

    Argument
  • 1981
    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    01981HD

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
  • 2026
    Swarm

    Swarm

    Swarm

    02026HD

    Swarm, 2026, McCall’s most recent work, premiering in the exhibition, draws on the rising significance of drones as an increasing presence in...

    Swarm
  • 2005
    Breath (III)

    Breath (III)

    Breath (III)

    02005HD

    A vertical (standing), deeply folded traveling wave passes through and around an only partly visible cone at its center which vigorously and...

    Breath (III)
  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    01977HD

    Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We...

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
  • 2013
    Face to Face IV

    Face to Face IV

    Face to Face IV

    02013HD

    Evolving beams are projected in two directions at once.

    Face to Face IV
  • 1974
    Partial Cone

    Partial Cone

    Partial Cone

    01974HD

    The film is screened in a completely dark, smoke-filled room with no seats or screen; the projector must be visible

    Partial Cone
  • 2010
    Skirt (I)

    Skirt (I)

    Skirt (I)

    02010HD

    Vertical video installation by Anthony Mccall.

    Skirt (I)
  • 1979
    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    61979HD

    This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and...

    Sigmund Freud's Dora
  • 1974
    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    01974HD

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

    Conical Solid
  • 2004
    Breath

    Breath

    Breath

    02004HD

    Breath (2004) was especially fascinating in how the light was used to create an architectural like enclosure that is 10 meters tall with a 4-meter...

    Breath
  • 2020
    Skylight

    Skylight

    Skylight

    02020HD

    A vertical solid-light installation that extends McCall’s investigation of perception through an intricate dialogue between light and sound....

    Skylight
  • 2010
    You and I (II)

    You and I (II)

    You and I (II)

    02010HD

    Vertical video installation by Anthony Mccall.

    You and I (II)
  • 1975
    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

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    This experimental "film" consists of an empty room with a bare lightbulb, and windows covered with a translucent material, for a duration of 24...

    Long Film for Ambient Light
  • 1974
    Cone of Variable Volume

    Cone of Variable Volume

    Cone of Variable Volume

    01974HD

    “Cone of Variable Volume was a conical form, which expanded and contracted in volume, like a lung. The rhythmic movement is imperceptible at...

    Cone of Variable Volume
  • 2003
    Doubling Back

    Doubling Back

    Doubling Back

    02003HD

    The first in the new Solid Light film series. Like Four Projected Movements almost thirty years earlier, the installation is projected against a...

    Doubling Back
  • 1972
    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

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    For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch...

    Landscape for Fire
  • 1975
    Four projected movements

    Four projected movements

    Four projected movements

    01975HD

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

    Four projected movements