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Running Fence

1977 · 58 min

A patient, quietly absorbing look at bureaucracy and stubborn creativity as a huge fabric fence crawls across farmland.

Directed by
David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Christo, Jeanne-Claude
Overview
Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape.

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Directed by
David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Christo, Jeanne-Claude
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    • art
    • class
    • politics
    • work
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    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • documentary
    • true story
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
    Starring
    Christo, Jeanne-Claude
    Runtime
    58 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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