SHOWTIMES:
Sun Apr 29 1:30pm Landmark WTTS Screening Room

Nominated for an Academy Award, Valley Curtain celebrates the Bulgarian-born artist's dramatic hanging of a huge orange curtain between two Colorado mountains. Since the late 1950's, Christo's large-scale temporary works of art have helped change our perception of art and society. Valley Curtain is the permanent record of a project that rocked the artistic community and turned skeptical iron-workers into astonished fans. Conceived and financed by Christo and his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude, this was no ordinary curtain. Made of nine tons of orange nylon polymide fabric, it stretched a full quarter-mile and was suspended from four steel cables 365 feet above Rifle Gap, Colorado (pop. 2,150). The workers who hung the curtain across the valley discovered a new form of art.

SCREENS WITH:

RUNNING FENCE (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Deborah Dickson, Susan Fromke, US, 1978)