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.
- Date of release
- 1974-03-10
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 26m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Casting
- Christo — Himself
- Jeanne-Claude — Herself
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Colorado
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
Christo's Valley Curtain is a 1974 American short documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles, about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Valley Curtain project.
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