Most Popular Gordon Matta-Clark Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
Heart of a Dog Trailer (2015)
21 October 2015
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Day's End Trailer (1975)
09 May 1975
In May 1972, Matta-Clark worked on an abandoned pier in New York for two months, where he cut sections of the door, floor, and roof.
Sauna View Trailer (1973)
29 March 1973
Matta-Clark made a video of his friends having a sauna; he later cut a section of the sauna to reveal the structure of the wall.
The Wall Trailer (1976)
12 November 1976
In 1976 Matta-Clark left for Berlin claiming that he intended to blow-up the Berlin Wall as his contribution to the New York–Downtown Manhattan: Soho show.
Tree Dance Trailer (1971)
09 May 1971
For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance inspired by spring fertility rituals.
Chinatown Voyeur Trailer (1971)
23 April 1971
This space and texture work, created specifically for video, is a tour of the skyline and domestic interiors of New York's Chinatown.
Paris Underground Trailer (1977)
26 February 1977
In this film Matta-Clark explores underground Paris. The artist shows the complexity of underground spaces with scenes of architectural ruins, car parks, tunnels, ossuaries, cellars, crypts and basements in the Opera district.
Conical Intersect Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Matta-Clark was invited to create Conical Intersect for the Paris Biennale in 1975. For this piece, he cut a giant conical shape into two adjacent seventeenth-century buildings designated for demolition as part of the urban redevelopment program that was clearing space for the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Conical Intersect Trailer (1975)
31 August 1975
“I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street from my place on rue Beaubourg that I had been taking photos of for the past year and which was about to be demolished.
Food Trailer (1972)
18 September 1972
This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971.
Fresh Kill Trailer (1972)
09 May 1972
This film records the complete process of the destruction of Matta-Clark's truck (which he called "Herman Meydag") by a bulldozer in a rubbish dump.
Clockshower Trailer (1973)
09 May 1973
In this film of one of his most daring performances, Matta-Clark climbed to the top of the Clocktower in New York and washed, shaved and brushed his teeth while suspended over the streets in front of the huge clockface.
Open House Trailer (1972)
01 June 1972
In May 1972, Matta-Clark installed an industrial waste container between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York?s SoHo district.
Automation House Trailer (1972)
10 May 1972
Automation House 1972, 32 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video This tape is an exercise in spatial perception, using mirror reflections of people and their movements.
Substrait (Underground Dailies) Trailer (1976)
10 May 1976
In this film, Matta-Clark explored and documented the underground spaces of New York City. The artist chose a range of sites (New York Central railroad tracks, Grand Central Station, 13th Street, Croton Aqueduct in Highgate, etc.
Office Baroque Trailer (1977)
01 June 1977
Matta-Clark made a cut in a five-story commercial building located in front of the Steen, a tourist spot in Antwerp.
City Slivers Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
For City Slivers, which was made with a camera borrowed from Robert Rauschenberg, Matta-Clark affixed vertical matte strips in front of an anamorphic camera lens, thereby allowing only slivers of light to penetrate the film.
Splitting Trailer (1974)
12 March 1974
For his 'Splitting' project, Matta-Clark found a house in Englewood, NJ (322 Humphrey Street to be precise) set for demolition, and bisected it neatly down the middle.
Bingo/Ninths Trailer (1974)
31 August 1974
In August 1974 Matta-Clark carried out a ‘cutting’ in a house at Niagara Falls, New York. The artist divided the north façade into nine parts.
Fire Child Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
In 1971 Matta-Clark produced works for the exhibition Brooklyn Bridge Event. This film records his process of making a sculpture - a small wall made of rubbish, waste paper and tin cans collected from the area.
