Bruce Nauman Movies

This video registration of a performance in his studio shows Bruce Nauman walking the perimeter of different shapes: circles, spirals and figure...

A stationary camera set upside down and framing a long shot of the studio records Nauman, with his hands clasped behind his back, repeating a series...

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...

This film records the activities Nauman performed four years earlier in 1965. Both in this performance and in this work he strikes and holds a...

An upside-down close-up of the artist’s mouth, Nauman repeats the words “lip sync” as the audio track shifts in and out of sync...

Nauman, his head cropped from the frame, is shown bouncing in the corner of his studio. Here, however, the images were recorded with a fixed camera...

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...

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

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...

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

For this videotape, Nauman turned the camera sideways and positioned it so that his head is cropped from the frame and his body is presented from...

Bruce assumes a set of positions in relation to the wall and floor.

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

This is one of the "Slo-Mo" series of films Nauman shot. Here he distorts his mouth with his fingers for the duration of the film in an inverted,...

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...

Experimental short by Bruce Nauman.

Creative portrait of the artist Bruce Nauman.

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