Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)

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A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden's studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled.
The installation opened fall 2011.
Chris Burden is one of our favorite artists of all time. For more about him and his work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bu...
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/chris...

and for a video about his awesome tv commercials/video art go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QrrE...

Directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Edited by Max Joseph
Cinemtography by Schulman, Joost & Van Neistat
Music by Tortoise (Ten-Day interval) & Mahogany (Windmill International A)

Special Thanks to Zak Cook and everyone at the Burden studio...Tortoise, Mahogany, Jaclyn Slimm & Andrew Prinz.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[Leo Purple]

Vsauce2 brought me here.

[mikkej2k]

$2.5million for this kinetic sculpture that took 4 years. Interesting.

[gmodpenguin24]

I wanna drive my own car :<

[Aitana E. Membrado]

Tortoise's "Ten day interval"!!! yeah! Burden is great

[eyescreamcake]

Bring us self-driving cars already!

[brt051]

This is pretty fantastic!!!! :D

wow =n.n=

[littleerica23]

just saw this today!  it was so awesome!

[John Vaneltsi]

OMG I would LOVE to live in a city like this

[odamcc]

what do u do when u wana clean up?

[DecoratingMagic]

very cool!

[terrage]

he went from very thought provoking performance art to matchbox cars. a sad decent into mundane.