Friday Films: Season Three
In celebration of the digital program From Dawn till Dusk: An online encounter between two earthworks by Robert Smithson, Holt/Smithson Foundation will host two special Friday Film screenings that provide a window into the concepts and processes guiding Smithson’s creation of the earthworks Spiral Jetty and Broken Circle / Spiral Hill.
We will begin on Friday September 6 with Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970). Smithson described the thirty-five-minute film as “a set of disconnections, a bramble of stabilized fragments taken from things obscure and fluid, ingredients trapped in a succession of frames, a stream of viscosities both still and moving.” The original 16mm film of Spiral Jetty was recently re-digitized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York in partnership with Holt/Smithson Foundation; this will be the first digital screening of this beautiful new 2024 scan.
We will continue the following Friday with Nancy Holt’s film Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971/2011), which combines 16mm footage Holt shot with Smithson during the construction of the earthwork with material gathered for the 40th anniversary of the earthwork in 2011 to create a portrait of Broken Circle/Spiral Hill and its unique surroundings.
Spiral Jetty will be available to stream online for 24 hours starting at 12pm Mountain Time (8:00pm Central European Time) on Friday September 6. Breaking Ground will be available to stream online for 24 hours starting at 12pm Mountain Time (8:00pm Central European Time) on Friday September 13. The Friday Films will be made available through Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Vimeo—follow Holt/Smithson Foundation’s website and social media for links to the films.
