Richard Serra Movies

A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.

A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint

Made in collaboration with Joan Jonas.

Serra’s film about the production of his sculpture Berlin Block (for Charlie Chaplin) (1977) at the Henrichshütte Hattingen steelworks in...

Television Delivers People is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts...

Echoing the vertical movement of the film through the projector, pieces of sheet lead fall into the image field. Serra’s hand opens and closes...

Footage of an arm and a hand holding a block of lead

In Frame (1969), Richard Serra emphasizes the disconnect bewteen the real space of the cinema and the illusory space of the screen. We first see...