Vito Acconci Filmes

A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of...

Super-8mm footage documenting the gallery set-up for Acconci's exhibition AIR-TIME at Sonnabend Gallery in 1973.

A super-8mm short by Vito Acconci

Standing alone among beach dunes, Acconci begins to kick at the sand below him. Over the course of the film's ten minutes, this repeated action...

In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence....

"Unavailable until recently, Corrections is Acconci's first single-channel video. Back to the camera, with only his head and bare shoulders visible,...

"In this now infamous tape, exemplary of his early transgressive performance style, Acconci sits and relates a masturbatory fantasy about a girl...

The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to...

A super-8mm document (blown up to 16mm) of Acconci's performance of the same name in which he covered almost the entirety of the gallery space with a...

A three-part video epic in which avant-garde artist Vito Acconci explores the relationship between the self and national mythology. Through multiple...

"In Scene Steal, Acconci, fully clothed, tries to shield a nude woman from the camera. In Container, he wraps his nude body around a cat as if to...

“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

"In another exploration of nonverbal communication, the camera moves back and forth, each time catching one of Acconci's hands in an expressive...

A super-8mm work documenting Acconci's audio installation piece in the Sonnabend gallery in 1972 of the same name.

The two-channel piece Remote Control is an exercise in manipulation and control between artist and subject, male and female. On separate channels,...

"In one of his earliest films, Acconci performs a series of actions — running in a circle, jumping, pushing another man — in which the...

Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him...

"Recording Studio From Air Time is a personal confessional in which video is both a mirror and a mediating device. Alone in an "isolation chamber" in...

Documentation of an evening of three simultaneous performances (Terry Fox, Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci), in January 1971. In each alcove a light...

"You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts...