Vito Acconci Movies

A documentation of a live performance at New York University, Pryings is a graphic exploration of the physical and psychological dynamics of...

A super-8mm work documenting Acconci's audio installation piece in the Sonnabend gallery in 1972 of the same name.

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

"Super-8 camera held out before him as shield and surrogate, Acconci pushes through a landscape of dense reeds and overgrowth. Break-Through records...

In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence....

In this powerful "meta-document," Acconci sits in the dark with his back to a screen, onto which are projected slides of his past works, in...

A super-8mm document (blown up to 16mm) of Acconci's performance of the same name where he laid flat on his stomach blindfolded on a wood platform in...

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...

In this performance based tape, Acconci uses his body to explore notions of opening and closure.

The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to...

"Unavailable until recently, Corrections is Acconci's first single-channel video. Back to the camera, with only his head and bare shoulders visible,...

In Two Track, Acconci experiments with direct and peripheral perception of information in the context of communication and interaction. He sits with...

"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 imitates the sounds of war, gunfire and explosion; he thrusts his face, stomach or penis onto the screen. His childlike battle sounds are...

Three-part short film. In 'Blindfold Catching', a blindfolded Acconci reacts, flinching and lunging, as rubber balls are repeatedly thrown at him...

"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...

The screen is empty: the artist stands off-screen — he breathes in and out, his stomach moving into and out of the frame.

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...

In the late 1960s, Vito Acconci abandoned poetry in order to work with the body and its relationship with space, although he did retain a commitment...