Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art | |
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Directed by | James Crump |
Written by | James Crump |
Produced by |
James Crump Ronnie Sassoon Farley Ziegler Michel Comte |
Starring |
Nancy Holt Lawrence Weiner Vito Acconci Dennis Oppenheim Robert Smithson Michael Heizer Germano Celant Harald Szeemann Virginia Dwan Willoughby Sharp Carl Andre Charles Ross Gianfranco Gorgoni Paula Cooper Pamela Sharp |
Cinematography | Alexandre Themistocleous Robert O'Haire |
Edited by | Nick Tamburri |
Distributed by | First Run Features |
Release dates |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $38,571 [1] |
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art is a 2015 American documentary film directed by James Crump. [2] [3] [4] [5] Troublemakers chronicles the history of land art in the 1960s and 1970s, when a group of radical New York artists began producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desert spaces of the American southwest. The film follows the enigmatic careers of artists who use the earth itself as their primary medium, including Robert Smithson ( Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria ( The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer ( Double Negative). [6]
Eric Gibson of The Wall Street Journal gave the film a positive review, writing, "A film that takes its place among the great art documentaries of the past half-century... filled with great moments, large and small... deftly captures the madcap ambition, grandeur and even sublimity of the works these artists created." [7] Glenn Kenny of The New York Times in a NYT Critics' Pick called it a "thrilling documentary," writing "The film’s generous views of spectacular works like Smithson’s monumental ( Spiral Jetty) (the work projects into the Great Salt Lake in Utah) and Mr. Heizer’s ( Double Negative) in Nevada (a huge trench bisected by a canyon) are best seen on the largest screen available." [8] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a colorful and sometimes gorgeous primer on this influential moment." [9] Jordan Hoffman, writing for The Guardian of London proclaimed "Forget Dawn of Justice – this is the best superhero team-up we’ll see at the cinema this year." [10] Writing for The Huffington Post, Patricia Zohn declared Troublemakers "does something that is rare for art documentaries: It is very beautiful and dynamic itself in examining work that is challenging. It meets the subject head-on." [11]
Troublemakers has a score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes [12] and 65% on Metacritic. [13]
The film premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival on October 1, 2015, and released theatrically on January 8, 2016, via First Run Features. [14] [15]
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art | |
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![]() | |
Directed by | James Crump |
Written by | James Crump |
Produced by |
James Crump Ronnie Sassoon Farley Ziegler Michel Comte |
Starring |
Nancy Holt Lawrence Weiner Vito Acconci Dennis Oppenheim Robert Smithson Michael Heizer Germano Celant Harald Szeemann Virginia Dwan Willoughby Sharp Carl Andre Charles Ross Gianfranco Gorgoni Paula Cooper Pamela Sharp |
Cinematography | Alexandre Themistocleous Robert O'Haire |
Edited by | Nick Tamburri |
Distributed by | First Run Features |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $38,571 [1] |
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art is a 2015 American documentary film directed by James Crump. [2] [3] [4] [5] Troublemakers chronicles the history of land art in the 1960s and 1970s, when a group of radical New York artists began producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desert spaces of the American southwest. The film follows the enigmatic careers of artists who use the earth itself as their primary medium, including Robert Smithson ( Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria ( The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer ( Double Negative). [6]
Eric Gibson of The Wall Street Journal gave the film a positive review, writing, "A film that takes its place among the great art documentaries of the past half-century... filled with great moments, large and small... deftly captures the madcap ambition, grandeur and even sublimity of the works these artists created." [7] Glenn Kenny of The New York Times in a NYT Critics' Pick called it a "thrilling documentary," writing "The film’s generous views of spectacular works like Smithson’s monumental ( Spiral Jetty) (the work projects into the Great Salt Lake in Utah) and Mr. Heizer’s ( Double Negative) in Nevada (a huge trench bisected by a canyon) are best seen on the largest screen available." [8] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a colorful and sometimes gorgeous primer on this influential moment." [9] Jordan Hoffman, writing for The Guardian of London proclaimed "Forget Dawn of Justice – this is the best superhero team-up we’ll see at the cinema this year." [10] Writing for The Huffington Post, Patricia Zohn declared Troublemakers "does something that is rare for art documentaries: It is very beautiful and dynamic itself in examining work that is challenging. It meets the subject head-on." [11]
Troublemakers has a score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes [12] and 65% on Metacritic. [13]
The film premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival on October 1, 2015, and released theatrically on January 8, 2016, via First Run Features. [14] [15]