Christo's Valley Curtain(1974)

Name: Christo's Valley Curtain
Director: David Maysles
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-01-01
Duration: 26 min
Cast: Christo, Jeanne-Claude

Christo Jeanne-Claude

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.