Christo's Valley Curtain (1974)
★ 6.6 (8) · 26 min
Directors: Albert Maysles · man David Maysles · man Ellen Giffard · woman
This Oscar-nominated documentary follows Christo and Jeanne-Claude as they conceive and execute Valley Curtain, an immense orange fabric installation stretched across a Colorado mountain pass. Filmed in a direct-cinema style, "Christo’s Valley Curtain" observes the negotiations, engineering challenges, and collective labor that shape the artwork, revealing the process itself as an essential part of the final creation.