Christo's Valley Curtain

(1974)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1974

Runtime: 26 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Ellen Giffard, Albert Maysles, David Maysles

Cast: Christo, Jeanne-Claude

Plot

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.