Gerry Schum

Gerry Schum made this fundamental film, Land Art, between 1968 and 1969 and was the first to use video as a document and testimony of the new artistic realities, of the unprecedented research in various parts of space and time that characterised the great art of the 1960s and 1970s.

It is a beautiful and historical documentary, a work of art in itself that testimonies seven performances:

• Walking a straight 10-mile line forward and back shooting every half mile by Richard Long, Dartmoor, 1969;
• A hole in the sea by Barry Flanagan, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 1969;
• Time track following the timeborder between Canada and USA by Dennis Oppenheim, Fort Kent, 1969;
• Fossil quarry mirror with four mirror displacements by Robert Smithson, Cayuga Lake, Region New York, 1969;
• Sand fountain by Marinus Boezem, Camargue, France, 1969;
• 12 hours tide object with correction of perspective by Jan Dibbets, Dutch coast, 1969;
• Two lines three circles on the desert by Walter De Maria, Mojave, California, 1969