Christo's Valley Curtain(1974)

movie - first aired/released 1974-03-10 - audience 6.9

Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Giffard

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.