Anthony McCall
Landscape for Fire, 1972
16mm film with sound, transferred to DVD;
Duration: 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Edition 2/15
Hall Collection
Hall Collection
© the artist
Anthony McCall's film Landscape for Fire (1972) creates a perceptual uncertainty through an emphasis on materiality. A film documenting an outdoor performance in the English landscape is edited so that...
Anthony McCall's film Landscape for Fire (1972) creates a perceptual uncertainty through an emphasis on materiality. A film documenting an outdoor performance in the English landscape is edited so that parts of it appear upside down and backwards, shifting our reading from the event to the process of the film's making.