Anthony McCall Movies

  • 1973
    Line Describing a Cone

    Line Describing a Cone

    Line Describing a Cone

    7.31973HD

    LINE DESCRIBING A CONE is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a...

    Line Describing a Cone
  • 1974
    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    Conical Solid

    01974HD

    A flat blade of light rotating from a fixed central axis.

    Conical Solid
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1979
    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    Sigmund Freud's Dora

    01979HD

    This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and...

    Sigmund Freud's Dora
  • 1977
    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards

    01977HD

    Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We...

    ABC - We Print Anything - In the Cards
  • 1981
    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    01981HD

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
  • 2011
    Line Describing a Cone 2.0

    Line Describing a Cone 2.0

    Line Describing a Cone 2.0

    52011HD

    A digital re-make and reinterpretation of McCall’s landmark 1973 thirty-minute film installation Line Describing a Cone.

    Line Describing a Cone 2.0
  • 1975
    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    01975HD

    This experimental "film" consists of an empty room with a bare lightbulb, and windows covered with a translucent material, for a duration of 24...

    Long Film for Ambient Light
  • 2018
    Split Second

    Split Second

    Split Second

    02018HD

    Split Second consists of two separate points of light projected at different heights. The two projections – one elliptical, one flat –...

    Split Second
  • 2020
    Raised Voices

    Raised Voices

    Raised Voices

    02020HD

    In Raised Voices, there are two competing and intersecting forms within the horizontal projection; an incomplete ellipse that varies in its diameter,...

    Raised Voices
  • 2018
    Split Second (Mirror)

    Split Second (Mirror)

    Split Second (Mirror)

    02018HD

    A single projection in which the “split” is created by interrupting the throw of light with a wall-sized mirror. The plane of light is...

    Split Second (Mirror)
  • 2013
    Face to Face IV

    Face to Face IV

    Face to Face IV

    02013HD

    Evolving beams are projected in two directions at once.

    Face to Face IV
  • 2003
    Doubling back

    Doubling back

    Doubling back

    02003HD

    The first in the new Solid Light film series. Like Four Projected Movements almost thirty years earlier, the installation is projected against a...

    Doubling back
  • 1975
    Four projected movements

    Four projected movements

    Four projected movements

    01975HD

    A single fifteen minute quarter of a triangular edge of light through 90 degrees, along one wall, becomes four distinct architectural interventions...

    Four projected movements
  • 1972
    Landscape for White Squares

    Landscape for White Squares

    Landscape for White Squares

    01972HD

    Landscape for White Squares features individuals emerging out of a dense fog, carrying large, square, white sheets.

    Landscape for White Squares
  • 2005
    You and I, Horizontal

    You and I, Horizontal

    You and I, Horizontal

    02005HD

    McCall’s digital animation presents a slowly shifting beam of “solid light” whose physical properties become outlined within the...

    You and I, Horizontal
  • 1978
    Argument

    Argument

    Argument

    01978HD

    Three male voices dissect one edition of The New York Times through a series of locked-off shots, revealing the prejudice and latent content of news...

    Argument
  • 1972
    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

    Landscape for Fire

    01972HD

    For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch...

    Landscape for Fire