Christo's Valley Curtain

Overview

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.

Directed by Albert Maysles, Ellen Giffard, David Maysles

Top cast

Christo

Himself

Jeanne-Claude

Herself

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