Movies: Conceptual art

Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his career, and provides clues to the understanding of the artist's paintings, photographic work and books....

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Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below....

John Baldessari is one of the pioneers of conceptual art, which revolutionized contemporary art in the 1960s, and is still a profound influence on young artists today. The film shows John Baldessari in all aspects of his work: as an artist in his stu...

This video is the first in the trilogy The Cologne Tapes, which Davis made in Cologne in 1974, and which was realized in cooperation with the Lijnbaancentrum. On the pavement somewhere on a street, a video camera lies on a light cushion. It lies ther...

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From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s (b.1931) varied work has been seminal in the field of conceptual art. Integrating semiology and mass media imagery, he empl...

'Boezem's face appears on the screen, stares at the viewer, and begins to breathe on the picture tube. After some time passes, the image begins to blur through the moisture deposited and the artist disappears from sight for several moments. While the...

A film by Osnat Shalev from the Department of Visual Communications, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design...

Conceptual-structural film by Branko Karabatić exploring media and television....