
The Films and Videos of Richard Serra - Program Two
Screening on Film
This program includes Serra’s classic experiments with video—Television Delivers People and Boomerang, which explore the medium’s ability to critique commercial television and to use feedback to interrogate video’s impact on the self—as well as the considerably lesser-known works that immediately preceded them, including his three collaborations with Joan Jonas, and Surprise Attack, a work shot by Babette Mangolte that hearkens back to Serra’s first, task-based films.
PROGRAM
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Paul Revere
Directed by Richard Serra in collaboration with Joan Jonas.
US, 1971, 16mm, black & white, 9 min.
Print source: Museum of Modern Art -
Anxious Automation
Directed by Richard Serra.
US, 1971, video transferred to digital, black & white, 5 min.
Copy source: Museum of Modern Art -
Veil
Directed by Richard Serra in collaboration with Joan Jonas.
US, 1971, 16mm, black & white, silent, 6 min.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives
Print source: Museum of Modern Art -
China Girl
Directed by Richard Serra.
Germany, 1972, video transferred to digital, black & white, 11 min.
Copy source: Museum of Modern Art -
Surprise Attack
Directed by Richard Serra. Camera by Babette Mangolte.
US, 1973, video transferred to digital, black & white, 2 min.
Copy source: Museum of Modern Art -
Television Delivers People
Directed by Richard Serra.
US, 1973, video transferred to digital, color, 6 min.
Copy source: Museum of Modern Art -
Boomerang
Directed by Richard Serra.
US, 1974, video transferred to digital, color, 11 min.
Copy source: Museum of Modern Art