Paul McCarthy Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The performance takes place in a small setting with an audience, but that's only a part of the artwork. After filming the performance he uses them...

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

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

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf...

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 1hr 47:14 min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve make soup and talk to the camera while drinking Champagne. Adolf Adam is...

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,...

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...

Paul McCarthy’s “Red Poster Tapes,” created in 1971-72, faithfully carry out a series of straightforward but bizarre instructions:...

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

2 channel 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 16:50 min An animated image flow of the absurd actions of male tyrants. Images of the world of male...

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

On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist