Pipilotti Rist Movies

  • 1992
    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

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    The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as...

    When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill
  • 1990
    You Called Me Jacky

    You Called Me Jacky

    You Called Me Jacky

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    This video art work features Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist lip-synching to Kevin Coyne's 1973 song 'Jacky and Edna', her image superimposed with...

    You Called Me Jacky
  • 1993
    Blutclip

    Blutclip

    Blutclip

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    Rist's body is the canvas in this surreal montage. Unflinching displays of the artist's own menstrual blood are juxtaposed with images of gemstones,...

    Blutclip
  • 1996
    Mother Floor

    Mother Floor

    Mother Floor

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    A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation...

    Mother Floor
  • 1992
    Pickelporno

    Pickelporno

    Pickelporno

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    In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual...

    Pickelporno
  • 1999
    Aujourd'hui

    Aujourd'hui

    Aujourd'hui

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    A daytime fantasy featuring earth nymphs, this short video work is an adapted version of Rist's installation "I Couldn't Agree With You More" for...

    Aujourd'hui
  • 2023
    Welling Color Island East

    Welling Color Island East

    Welling Color Island East

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    Patterns swirl and melt, a woman falls backwards into a galaxy, a naked giant does yoga over us.

    Welling Color Island East
  • 2022
    大皮膚 SKI-NY

    大皮膚 SKI-NY

    大皮膚 SKI-NY

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    Metal textures flow into cellular structures.

    大皮膚 SKI-NY
  • 1996
    Sip My Ocean

    Sip My Ocean

    Sip My Ocean

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    Sip My Ocean, a video projected as two mirrored reflections on adjoining walls, offers a kaleidoscopic view of an idyllic underwater paradise, with a...

    Sip My Ocean
  • 1994
    Selfless in the Bath of Lava

    Selfless in the Bath of Lava

    Selfless in the Bath of Lava

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    Selbstlos im Lavabad is comprised of a small film embedded in a hole on the floor. In the film, the artist swims nude in an incandescent lava bath...

    Selfless in the Bath of Lava
  • 1988
    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

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    Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing...

    (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes
  • 1987
    Sexy Sad I

    Sexy Sad I

    Sexy Sad I

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    In this détourned music video, Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the form and of pop culture in general....

    Sexy Sad I