Director: Richard Serra
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Biography: Sculpture – man – space: These are the coordinates that the American sculptor Richard Serra is concerned with. In his films and video pieces from the 1960s and 70s, the focus is on the lines that connect them. Man becomes the object of his own perception, sculpture becomes a medium: Communication structures and power relations become experienceable in their process-oriented nature. The moving image possesses a materiality: Like almost no other filmic work, that of Richard Serra shows the now historical peculiarity of the medium, the relation of form and content prior to the digital image: The films in which close-ups of his hands shape the filmic space and the documentary films are shot with 16mm film. The pieces conceived as happenings or performances dealing with recording mediums and state power, in turn, are shot with video.
Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939; since 1991 he lives in New York.
Country: USA
Year: 1968
Synopsis: Hands Scraping reduces the frame to one sequential structure in which the action demonstrates a reductio ad absurdum, for more energy is expensed at the end to do seemingly less work. The film involves a particular kind of choreography for hands.
Language: without dialogue
