Richard Serra Movies

  • 1973
    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

    Television Delivers People

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    Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...

    Television Delivers People
  • 1968
    Hand Lead Fulcrum

    Hand Lead Fulcrum

    Hand Lead Fulcrum

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    Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

    Hand Lead Fulcrum
  • 1973
    Surprise Attack

    Surprise Attack

    Surprise Attack

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    A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.

    Surprise Attack
  • 1972
    China Girl

    China Girl

    China Girl

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    Made in collaboration with Gerry Schum

    China Girl
  • 1976
    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

    Railroad Turnbridge

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    “…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes...

    Railroad Turnbridge
  • 1968
    Hand Catching Lead

    Hand Catching Lead

    Hand Catching Lead

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    Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes...

    Hand Catching Lead
  • 1979
    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk

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    Serra’s film about the production of his sculpture Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (1977) at the Henrichshütte Hattingen steelworks in...

    Steelmill/Stahlwerk
  • 1969
    Tina Turning

    Tina Turning

    Tina Turning

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    A short film by Richard Serra

    Tina Turning