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Christo's Valley Curtain

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Release date: March 10, 1974
Duration: 26 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Christo
Himself
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Jeanne-Claude
Herself