Christo's Valley Curtain (1974)
This Oscar-nominated documentary follows Christo and Jeanne-Claude as they conceive and execute Valley Curtain, an immense orange fabric installation stretched across a Colorado mountain pass. Filmed in a direct-cinema style, "Christo’s Valley Curtain" observes the negotiations, engineering challenges, and collective labor that shape the artwork, revealing the process itself as an essential part of the final creation.
- Released
- 1974-03-10
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 26 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 10 votes
Cast
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