Burden | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name | dG1fVG9lUTNWRFhDUjg

Transcript

00:00Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Chris Burden.

00:15I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Chris Burden.

00:18I study minimalism. Sculpture, you're supposed to walk around. Sculpture is action.

00:22I figured out that the act of doing something in itself could be on.

00:26And that's how I got to do performances in Colomar.

00:30Performance art, that doesn't make it art.

00:33It only makes a thing that silly people go to see.

00:37He would do things which would be like a slap in the face.

00:41He just walks into the buzzsaw and lets the feathers fly.

00:45We would make an art that couldn't be bought or sold and gain control of it.

00:49You wouldn't buy any art. Why should I buy it? I can make it.

00:52I remember Chris heeling his hands trying to figure out where the nails could go through without it hurting.

01:01I'm not about death and I didn't want to die, but I wanted to come close.

01:05What if art was violent? What if it was painful?

01:07As American as apple pie.

01:09He was indirectly radicalizing a whole group of us.

01:15We were constantly asking ourselves, what is art? What can art be?

01:19You never felt safe around the big wheel.

01:21There was not a sculpture you could imagine like little kids going up to in awe and wonder.

01:26A magazine putting it in the Guggenheim and getting it to spin so fast that it explodes and destroys the museum.

01:32I think he's a brilliant guy.

01:35Ooh!

01:38Here's a guy brought up in Switzerland with the highest level of education.

01:42When you manage him, none of that appeared.

01:45We build this kind of mystic story about Chris Burden.

01:49Chris has never been afraid to make something that manipulates and embraces spectacle.

01:54Every detail is perfect.

01:56It does push your head around a little, otherwise it's not very good art.

02:00I knew then and I know now.

02:02He was going to shift art history.

02:07The crowd seems happy.

02:08Thank you very much, Mr. Burden.