Anthony McCall Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 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
  • 2010
    Skirt (I)

    Skirt (I)

    Skirt (I)

    02010HD

    Vertical video installation by Anthony Mccall.

    Skirt (I)
  • 1974
    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    01974HD

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

    Conical Solid
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 2018
    Split Second

    Split Second

    Split Second

    02018HD

    Split Second consists of two separate points of light projected at different heights. The two projections – one elliptical, one flat –...

    Split Second
  • 1978
    Argument

    Argument

    Argument

    01978HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Raised Voices

    Raised Voices

    Raised Voices

    02020HD

    In Raised Voices, there are two competing and intersecting forms within the horizontal projection; an incomplete ellipse that varies in its diameter,...

    Raised Voices
  • 1975
    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    01975HD

    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
  • 1973
    Line Describing a Cone

    Line Describing a Cone

    Line Describing a Cone

    7.31973HD

    LINE DESCRIBING A CONE is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a...

    Line Describing a Cone
  • 1972
    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

    5.51972HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1972
    Landscape for White Squares

    Landscape for White Squares

    Landscape for White Squares

    01972HD

    Landscape for White Squares features individuals emerging out of a dense fog, carrying large, square, white sheets.

    Landscape for White Squares