Cinematography: Nancy Holt

Direction Nancy Holt

Cast Nancy Holt

Plot Sun Tunnels documents the making of Holt's major site-specific sculptural work. Completed in 1976, the sculpture features a configuration of four concrete "tunnels" 8 feet long and 9 feet in...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though...

Direction Nancy Holt

Cast Dennis Wheeler

Plot Using multiple camera angles and minimal repetitions to modulate her friend David Wheeler’s personal narrative of his battle with leukemia, Holt presents his physical illness as a site for metaphysical...

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Cast Michael Heizer · Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Plot 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 in the earth...

Direction Nancy Holt

Cast Robert Smithson

Plot 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 years before...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot The film explores the environment—manmade and natural—at Rozel Point on the north arm of Great Salt Lake. The film captures wood cabins, an amphibious vehicle, and remnants of oil drilling...

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Plot East Coast, West Coast, Holt and Smithson’s first collaborative experiment with video, takes the form of a humorous bi-coastal art dialogue. Joined by their friends Joan Jonas and Peter Campus,...

Direction Robert Smithson

Plot This film, made by the artist, Robert Smithson, with the assistance of Virgina Dwan, Dwan Gallery & Douglas Christmas, Director, Ace Gallery, (the aforementioned Dwan & Christmas also assisted Smithson...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot 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 been cut has been...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows...

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Plot Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson collaborated on this seminal film, which viscerally confronts issues of perception and process. The action of the film is direct: Holt walks through the tall...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot 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 re-videotaped while being underscanned....

Direction Nancy Holt

Cast Robert Smithson

Plot The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson’s earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the site of the earthwork in progress, Smithson died in a...

Direction Nancy Holt

Plot Positioned in an elevated vantage point, Holt uses five apertures in a black board set before the camera to slowly reveal a controlled, abstracted view of an urban landscape. Discussing...