Richard Serra Movies

The film is an adaptation from two sources: Kinesics and Context by Ray L. Birdwhistell, and Choreomania, a performance by Joan Jonas

A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint

In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see...

A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.

Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes...

Like the three "Hands" films by Richard Serra (1968), the subject of "Color Aid" are fingers as actors of real time activity. Monochrome colour cards...

Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.

Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...

Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead