Vito Acconci Movies
- 1970
Clouds
Clouds01970HD
Vito Acconci
- 1972
Hand to Hand
Hand to Hand01972HD
"In another exploration of nonverbal communication, the camera moves back and forth, each time catching one of Acconci's hands in an expressive...
- 1972
Cross-Fronts
Cross-Fronts01972HD
A super-8mm short from Vito Acconci
- 1971
Watch
Watch01971HD
Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.
- 1974
Shoot
Shoot01974HD
Acconci imitates the sounds of war, gunfire and explosion; he thrusts his face, stomach or penis onto the screen. His childlike battle sounds are...
- 1973
Visions of a Disappearance
Visions of a Disappearance01973HD
"Visions of a Disappearance is a newly restored performance tape that was recorded in Naples, Italy, in 1973. Crouched in a corner, hemmed in by the...
- 1970
Filling Up Space
Filling Up Space01970HD
"A view of a brick wall: the artist enters and walks from one side to the other, back and forth, row after row." - Electronic Arts Intermix
- 1970
Openings
Openings01970HD
Acconci's body-based performances are often willfully provocative in their testing of physical limits and controlled actions. Here, as the camera...
- 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...
- 1971
Training Ground
Training Ground01971HD
A super-8mm document (blown up to 16mm) of Acconci's performance of the same name in which he covered almost the entirety of the gallery space with a...
- 1971
Waterways (Burst; Storage)
Waterways (Burst; Storage)01971HD
Using extreme close-ups and amplified sound to force the viewer into the space of his body, he experiments with his mouth as a container for saliva,...
- 1973
Walk-Over
Walk-Over01973HD
"A long narrow corridor, leading to the camera—at one side, a window—sun streams in, splotches of light and dark, the corridor shimmers....
- 1970
Seeing Red
Seeing Red01970HD
Vito Acconci chokes himself with a white cloth multiple times, his face turns red.
- 1974
My Word
My Word01974HD
In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence....