Bruce Nauman Movies
- 2007
Seven Easy Pieces
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For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own,...
- 1986
Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment
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In this video work Bruce Nauman explores violence, gender and behaviour. Set around a simple middle class dining table, the scene quickly escalates...
- 1968
Pinchneck
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Experimental short by Bruce Nauman.
- 2000
Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
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The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day and videotaped the process. As the title of...
- 1968
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square
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In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as he places...
- 1969
Black Balls
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In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting between...
- 1969
Gauze
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In this film, Nauman, bit by bit, pulls five or six yards of gauze from his mouth. Along with Black Balls and Pulling Mouth, it is one of the...
- 1985
Good Boy Bad Boy
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In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an...
- 1996
Washing Hands Abnormal
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In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness bordering on obsession. Each from a different vantage...
- 1975
Pursuit
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Images of sixteen men and women are shown, one by one, as they run on a conveyor belt against a black background. They appear to be in a complete...
- 1968
Violin Film #1 (Playing The Violin As Fast As I Can)
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Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of...
- 1969
Lip Sync
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An upside-down close-up of the artist’s mouth, Nauman repeats the words “lip sync” as the audio track shifts in and out of sync...
- 1968
Bouncing in the Corner No. 1
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For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from...
- 2015
Contrapposto Studies, I through VII
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This exhibition presents a new work by Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, which continues the artist's exploration of video, sound,...
- 1968
Playing a Note on the Violin While I Walk Around in the Studio
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In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two notes [on a violin] very close together so that...
- 1991
Anthro / Socio
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On three projection surfaces and six monitors, one sees the head of a man shown in different takes. While continually revolving about his own axis,...
- 1968
Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk)
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A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by...
- 1973
Elke Allowing the Floor to Rise Up Over Her, Face Up
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In 1969 Nauman had devised a set of mental exercises in which a live performer was to concentrate on sinking into the floor or allowing the floor to...
- 1969
Bouncing in the Corner, No. 2: Upside Down
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Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera...
- 1968
Wall-Floor Positions
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Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.