Paul McCarthy Movies

  • 1976
    Rocky

    Rocky

    Rocky

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    Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with...

    Rocky
  • 1992
    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

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    A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size...

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

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    Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

    Out O' Actions
  • 1995
    Painter

    Painter

    Painter

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    In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract...

    Painter
  • 1976
    Class Fool

    Class Fool

    Class Fool

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    In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San...

    Class Fool
  • 2001
    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

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    Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...

    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
  • 2014
    The Art Foundry

    The Art Foundry

    The Art Foundry

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    The Art Foundry
  • 1974
    Sauce

    Sauce

    Sauce

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    Performance art piece

    Sauce
  • 2019
    Coach Stage Stage Coach

    Coach Stage Stage Coach

    Coach Stage Stage Coach

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    Paul McCarthy's reinterpretation of John Ford's classic western Stagecoach.

    Coach Stage Stage Coach
  • 1975
    Experimental Dancer

    Experimental Dancer

    Experimental Dancer

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    In contrast with McCarthy's recent projects, however, many of his older works are little short of incendiary--particularly three videos from 1975,...

    Experimental Dancer
  • 2001
    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

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    Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body
  • 2010
    Aryan Death Ship

    Aryan Death Ship

    Aryan Death Ship

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    In 1983, Paul McCarthy realised the performance Aryan Death Ship in which the artist assumed the authoritative figure of the captain of an...

    Aryan Death Ship
  • 1991
    Bossy Burger

    Bossy Burger

    Bossy Burger

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    Paul McCarthy, with the mask of Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, prepares a meal – makes a mess – in the set of the America soap...

    Bossy Burger
  • 1987
    Cultural Soup

    Cultural Soup

    Cultural Soup

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    A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...

    Cultural Soup
  • 1994
    Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma

    Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma

    Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma

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    With his Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma, Paul McCarthy shows that interfaces don't always have to be a complicated business. Contact with the...

    Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma
  • 2020
    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

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    On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist

    Becoming Paul McCarthy
  • 1975
    Black and White Tapes

    Black and White Tapes

    Black and White Tapes

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    Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the...

    Black and White Tapes
  • 1975
    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

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    Here, the artist performs as the female protagonist of Russ Meyer’s soft-porn film, Europe in the Raw! (1963). Done up in black lace lingerie,...

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)
  • 1987
    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

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    Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
  • 1995
    Fresh Acconci

    Fresh Acconci

    Fresh Acconci

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    Artists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility....

    Fresh Acconci