Pipilotti Rist Movies

20 short films about human rights.

Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three...

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's...

This video art work features Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist lip-synching to Kevin Coyne's 1973 song 'Jacky and Edna', her image superimposed with...

Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing...

The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as...

No bigger than ants, we glide through an Arcadian garden.

During the party offered for Halloween at the Nobel Laureate, Murray Gell-Mann in Santa Fe, Michele and Pipilotti enter a back room...

The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her studio in Zurich as well as at the Museum of Modern...

With I'm a Victim of this Song, Rist takes up the concept of the "cover" version, in which one performer does a version of another's song, and gives...

This video work was made while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition...

Love, memory, nature, and intimacy collide.

This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

Sip My Ocean, a video projected as two mirrored reflections on adjoining walls, offers a kaleidoscopic view of an idyllic underwater paradise, with a...

Metal textures flow into cellular structures.

Selbstlos im Lavabad is comprised of a small film embedded in a hole on the floor. In the film, the artist swims nude in an incandescent lava bath...

Ever Is Over All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush...

Presented across three screens, Lungenflügel (Lobe of the Lung) 2009 is an immersive video installation, lasting just over fifteen minutes. It...

A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world. Swiss artist...