Vito Acconci Movies
- 1973
Reception Room
Reception Room01973HD
Acconci lies naked on a gurney-like table, rocking back and forth as a tape-loop of his voice describes his anxieties about exposing his body and his...
- 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
Concentration/Contemplation Piece
Concentration/Contemplation Piece01970HD
A three and a half minute Super-8mm piece on concentration/contemplation by Vito Acconci.
- 1970
Three Frame Studies
Three Frame Studies01970HD
"In one of his earliest films, Acconci performs a series of actions — running in a circle, jumping, pushing another man — in which the...
- 1974
Turn-On
Turn-On01974HD
The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to...
- 1970
Applications
Applications01970HD
A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring...
- 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...
- 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
Break-Through
Break-Through01970HD
"Super-8 camera held out before him as shield and surrogate, Acconci pushes through a landscape of dense reeds and overgrowth. Break-Through records...
- 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....
- 1971
Two Track
Two Track01971HD
In Two Track, Acconci experiments with direct and peripheral perception of information in the context of communication and interaction. He sits with...
- 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
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,...
- 1970
Seeing Red
Seeing Red01970HD
Vito Acconci chokes himself with a white cloth multiple times, his face turns red.