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.
Directed by David Maysles and Ellen Giffard and Albert Maysles
IMDB
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Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
Cast
Christo
Himself
Jeanne-Claude
Herself
Crew
David Maysles
Director
Ellen Giffard
Director
Albert Maysles
Director
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
Cam
8.0★ · 10/25/21
A grand-scale art installment through the eyes of its construction workers is poetry in itself. Those men are artists in the fullest sense.
A grand-scale art installment through the eyes of its construction workers is poetry in itself. Those men are artists in the fullest sense.
