The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark Program Two: City Slivers

The late chainsaw-wielding artist Gordon Matta-Clark is best known as an "anarchitect" who literally deconstructed abandoned buildings and industrial spaces. Much less known are his works as a filmmaker, works that reveal his performances and installations more fully and create their own cinematically arresting terrain. At tonight's program you'll see films that carve deeply into Matta-Clark's cinematic and physical explorations. Food (1973) is a time-capsule documentary that captures one of Matta-Clark's most atypical instances of conceptual art: the creation and operation of a popular downtown Manhattan restaurant run by artists. City Slivers (1976) and the Harold Lloydñinspired Clockshower (1974) play with cinematic form and convention. Conical Intersect and Day's End (both 1975) display Matta-Clark's architectural slicings at their most graceful and disorienting. (Program approx. 114 mins.)


support credits

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.