Monuments narrates a fictional struggle between cinema and sculpture in the development of the work of Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark and Dan Graham. In retracing the history of their relationship to New Jersey, the film becomes an allegory for the effects that neo-liberalism and globalization have had on this society and landscape in the years since. A brainy, beautifully imagined film with an unexpectedly dry humour to boot.
Also in this combined programme
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Mudanza
The family house of the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is emptied – the final division of the estate of mind and body. -
Sex Is Sentimental
Can you love people just as much as art? The artist Erik van Lieshout subjects himself and his lover to an intense investigation.
Film details
- Countries of production
- United Kingdom, USA
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
