Richard Serra Movies

A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.

A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a...

Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...

Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see...

Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes...