Pipilotti Rist Movies

20 short films about human rights.

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's...

Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three...

‘It’s springtime’, a little bird stealing the filaments of my window screen reminded me this morning. ‘The sun in shining,...

The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as...

A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation...

Patterns swirl and melt, a woman falls backwards into a galaxy, a naked giant does yoga over us.

Ever Is Over All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush...

A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world. Swiss artist...

This video art work features Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist lip-synching to Kevin Coyne's 1973 song 'Jacky and Edna', her image superimposed with...

This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

A Persian carpet melts, dragon fly wings transform into wild leaves, we glide under giant poppies, a naked giant does yoga over us.

With I'm a Victim of this Song, Rist takes up the concept of the "cover" version, in which one performer does a version of another's song, and gives...

No bigger than ants, we glide through an Arcadian garden.

This video work was made while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition...

In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual...

Rist's body is the canvas in this surreal montage. Unflinching displays of the artist's own menstrual blood are juxtaposed with images of gemstones,...

Metal textures flow into cellular structures.