Bruce Nauman Movies

HD video installation (color, stereo sound),continuous play, two HD video sources, two HD video projectors, four speakers

This exhibition presents a new work by Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, which continues the artist's exploration of video, sound, an...

A fixed camera turned on its side records Nauman repeating for nearly an hour a laborious sequence of body movements inspired by passages in works by...

Art Make-Up is composed of four individual segments, each 10 minutes long. In them, Nauman appears tightly framed by the camera against a blank backgr...

"In this videotape Nauman attempted to maintain the contrapposto pose associated with classical and Renaissance sculpture while walking down a long, n...

The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day and videotaped the process. As the title of Setti...

In this film record of a studio activity, Nauman set himself the task of walking while playing "two notes [on a violin] very close together so that yo...

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a generat...

In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness bordering on obsession. Each from a different vantage p...

This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of th...

“Two color monitors placed in the window played one of Nauman’s most recent videos, that of a clown jumping up and down shouting ‘No, No, No, No!’ end...

In this film, Nauman bounces his testicles with one hand. Shot in extreme close-up, the work is perhaps an ironic reference to an earlier film Bouncin...

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1),Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked ar...

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can),is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of so...

Flour Arrangements, a photo series showing Bruce Nauman pushing some piles of flour around on the floor. He uses his body by treating it like material...

In this film, Nauman applies black makeup to his testicles. The action was recorded with an industrial high-speed camera capable of shooting between o...

Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman.

Bruce Nauman - Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) (1968),16mm black-and-white film For this film, Bruce Nauman made a squ...

In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as he places o...