Robert Smithson Movies
- 2018
Bird Box
Bird Box6.82018HD
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
- 1969
Swamp
Swamp5.51969HD
The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall grasses of a swamp while filming with her Bolex camera, guided only by what she can see...
- 1970
Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty51970HD
This film, made by the artist, Robert Smithson, with the assistance of Virgina Dwan, Dwan Gallery & Douglas Christmas, Director, Ace Gallery,...
- 1969
East Coast, West Coast
East Coast, West Coast41969HD
East Coast, West Coast, Holt and Smithson's first collaborative experiment with video, takes the form of a humorous bi-coastal art dialogue. Joined...
- 1970
Utah Sequences
Utah Sequences51970HD
The film explores the environment—manmade and natural—at Rozel Point on the north arm of Great Salt Lake. The film captures wood cabins,...
- 1971
Bob with Books
Bob with Books41971HD
Shot on the roof of 799 Greenwich St., New York, Bob with Books is a short silent film by Nancy Holt on her husband, artist Robert Smithson, two...
- 2013
The Making of Amarillo Ramp
The Making of Amarillo Ramp52013HD
The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...
- 2004
Mono Lake
Mono Lake42004HD
Mono Lake is a document of a unique natural environment, a "home movie" of the artists' 1968 road trip, and an intimate view of three seminal figures...
- 2011
Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill02011HD
40 years after the completion of the work 'Broken Circle/Spiral Hill', the film that Robert Smithson was never able to finish due to his untimely...
- 1965
Enantiomorphic Chambers
Enantiomorphic Chambers01965HD
n 1964 Robert Smithson made a sculpture called Enantiomorphic Chambers that cleverly exploited our two-eyed nature to haunting metaphysical ends....