Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Jan 8 2016 Not Rated 1h 12m
Biography, Documentary, History

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who walked away from the reproducible and the commodifiable, migrated to the American Southwest, worked with earth and light and seemingly limitless space, and rethought the question of scale and the relationships between artist, landscape, and viewer. Director James Crump has meticulously constructed Troublemakers from interviews (with Germano Celant, Virginia Dwan, and others), photos and footage of Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Charles Ross among others at work on their astonishing creations.

Plot

Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story of renegades and firebrands all willing to risk their future careers on radical change and experimentation-a marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today. Featuring rare interviews with a veritable who's who of American Art of the twentieth century.

Written by

James Crump

Directed by

James Crump

Cast

Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Germano Celant

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Summitridge Pictures, First Run Features

Awards

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Trailers
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary HD
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