Anthony McCall Movies
- 1997

Birth of a Nation
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Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1985

Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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- 2026

Swarm
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Swarm, 2026, McCall’s most recent work, premiering in the exhibition, draws on the rising significance of drones as an increasing presence in...
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- 2010

Skirt (I)
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Vertical video installation by Anthony Mccall.
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- 1974

Conical Solid
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A flat blade of light rotating from a fixed central axis.
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- 1974

Partial Cone
Partial Cone01974HD
The film is screened in a completely dark, smoke-filled room with no seats or screen; the projector must be visible
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- 2004

Breath
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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...
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- 2003

Doubling Back
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The first in the new Solid Light film series. Like Four Projected Movements almost thirty years earlier, the installation is projected against a...
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- 1981

Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
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- 2020

Skylight
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A vertical solid-light installation that extends McCall’s investigation of perception through an intricate dialogue between light and sound....
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- 2005

Breath (III)
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A vertical (standing), deeply folded traveling wave passes through and around an only partly visible cone at its center which vigorously and...
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- 2018

Split Second
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Split Second consists of two separate points of light projected at different heights. The two projections – one elliptical, one flat –...
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- 1978

Argument
Argument01978HD
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...
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- 1979

Sigmund Freud's Dora
Sigmund Freud's Dora61979HD
This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and...
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- 2020

Raised Voices
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In Raised Voices, there are two competing and intersecting forms within the horizontal projection; an incomplete ellipse that varies in its diameter,...
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- 1975

Long Film for Ambient Light
Long Film for Ambient Light01975HD
This experimental "film" consists of an empty room with a bare lightbulb, and windows covered with a translucent material, for a duration of 24...
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- 1973

Line Describing a Cone
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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...
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- 1972

Landscape for Fire
Landscape for Fire5.51972HD
For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch...
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- 1974

Cone of Variable Volume
Cone of Variable Volume01974HD
“Cone of Variable Volume was a conical form, which expanded and contracted in volume, like a lung. The rhythmic movement is imperceptible at...
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- 1972

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