Conical Intersect

1975, 18:40 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on HD video

For the Paris Biennale in 1975, Matta-Clark made a major cut in two houses adjacent to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Les Halles. The cut, shaped like a twisted cone, was inspired by Anthony McCall's film Line Describing a Cone.

Camera: Bruno Dewitt, Gordon Matta-Clark.

 
 

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