Anthony McCall Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A digital re-make and reinterpretation of McCall’s landmark 1973 thirty-minute film installation Line Describing a Cone.

This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and...

A flat blade of light rotating from a fixed central axis.

LINE DESCRIBING A CONE is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a...

Video documentation of performance of the work hosted by De Appel, Amsterdam, in 1977 and filmed by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas. In ABC - We...

This experimental "film" consists of an empty room with a bare lightbulb, and windows covered with a translucent material, for a duration of 24...

In Raised Voices, there are two competing and intersecting forms within the horizontal projection; an incomplete ellipse that varies in its diameter,...

A single projection in which the “split” is created by interrupting the throw of light with a wall-sized mirror. The plane of light is...

Evolving beams are projected in two directions at once.

Split Second consists of two separate points of light projected at different heights. The two projections – one elliptical, one flat –...

The first in the new Solid Light film series. Like Four Projected Movements almost thirty years earlier, the installation is projected against a...

A single fifteen minute quarter of a triangular edge of light through 90 degrees, along one wall, becomes four distinct architectural interventions...

Landscape for White Squares features individuals emerging out of a dense fog, carrying large, square, white sheets.

McCall’s digital animation presents a slowly shifting beam of “solid light” whose physical properties become outlined within the...

Three male voices dissect one edition of The New York Times through a series of locked-off shots, revealing the prejudice and latent content of news...

For Landscape for Fire, Anthony McCall and members of the British artist collaborative Exit followed McCall’s pre-determined score to torch...