Vito Acconci Movies

"Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of...

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

Steeped in black humor, this concise political critique is Acconci's contribution to artist Jenny Holzer's collaborative Sign on a Truck project,...

"Visions of a Disappearance is a newly restored performance tape that was recorded in Naples, Italy, in 1973. Crouched in a corner, hemmed in by the...

Vito Acconci chokes himself with a white cloth multiple times, his face turns red.

In Face of the Earth, Acconci's face becomes a metaphorical theater for a narrative drama of the mythic American landscape. Eyes closed, his face...

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A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring...

"A view of a brick wall: the artist enters and walks from one side to the other, back and forth, row after row." - Electronic Arts Intermix

In Theme Song, Acconci uses video as close-up to establish a perversely intimate relation with the viewer, creating a personal space in which to talk...

Acconci's face is seen in close-up. His eyes trace, in real time, the movement of the hands of an off-screen clock.

The artist, sitting naked, takes water from a pot into his mouth and gargles; he spits it out onto his stomach and groin, transferring the water from...

Using extreme close-ups and amplified sound to force the viewer into the space of his body, he experiments with his mouth as a container for saliva,...

A three and a half minute Super-8mm piece on concentration/contemplation by Vito Acconci.

In 'Looking Around Piece', the performer stands before a fixed camera, which records his eye and head movements as he follows a moving object outside...

The artist, covered in flour, tries to blow the flour off his skin.

"In this exercise in nonverbal communication, Acconci explores facial expressions, and their psychological resonance, as a mode of performance...