Direction: Robert Smithson

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Smithson. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Mono Lake (S)

2004 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Cast Michael Heizer · Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Synopsis 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...

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East Coast, West Coast (S)

1969 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Synopsis 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,...

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Spiral Jetty

1970 · Documentary · 32 min. · United States

Direction Robert Smithson

Synopsis 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...

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Swamp (S)

1971 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States

Direction Nancy Holt · Robert Smithson

Synopsis 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...

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