Nancy Holt Movies
- 1976
Regrouping
Regrouping4.71976HD
In this experimental film, Borden explores the dynamics among the members of a woman’s group. As she interviews people who know them, such as...
- 1978
Sun Tunnels
Sun Tunnels51978HD
Sun Tunnels documents the making of Holt's major site-specific sculptural work. Completed in 1976, the sculpture features a configuration of four...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1975
Pine Barrens
Pine Barrens01975HD
Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking,...
- 1974
Underscan
Underscan61974HD
In Underscan, time and the visual image are compressed. A series of photographs of my Aunt Ethel's home in New Bedford, MA had been videotaped, and...
- 1988
Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park
Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park51988HD
This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which...
- 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...
- 1977
Revolve
Revolve61977HD
Using multiple camera angles and minimal repetitions to modulate her friend David Wheeler's personal narrative of his battle with leukemia, Holt...
- 1974
Boomerang
Boomerang01974HD
Originally broadcast on public television in Amarillo, TX, Richard Serra’s BOOMERANG features Nancy Holt framed in a medium shot with a pair of...
- 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...
- 1971
Mangrove Ring
Mangrove Ring61971HD
Mangrove Ring features a sculpture Smithson created in the ocean using mangrove seedlings while traveling in Florida. Off the coast of Summerland Key...
- 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...
- 1973
Going Around in Circles
Going Around in Circles51973HD
Going Around in Circles is an early video experiment in which Holt explores perception and point of view. A board in which five circular holes have...
- 1973
Zeroing In
Zeroing In01973HD
Positioned in an elevated vantage point, Holt uses five apertures in a black board set before the camera to slowly reveal a controlled, abstracted...
- 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...
- 1998
Up and Under
Up and Under01998HD
Up and Under is an impressive piece of land art designed by American artist Nancy Holt. Up and Under was completed in 1998. The tunnels included in...
- 1971
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere01971HD
Florida Keys, FL, 1971.
- 1974
Match-Match Their Courage
Match-Match Their Courage01974HD
Artists Nancy Holt and Charlemagne Palestine attempt to have a conversation with one another while their voices are distorted.