Pipilotti Rist Movies

20 short films about human rights.

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's...

Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three...

In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual...

This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

Love, memory, nature, and intimacy collide.

This video art work features Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist lip-synching to Kevin Coyne's 1973 song 'Jacky and Edna', her image superimposed with...

Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing...

Ever Is Over All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush...

A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation...

Patterns swirl and melt, a woman falls backwards into a galaxy, a naked giant does yoga over us.

For her London exhibition, ‘Worry Will Vanish’, Rist has transformed the gallery into a fully immersive, sensory environment. Projected...

With I'm a Victim of this Song, Rist takes up the concept of the "cover" version, in which one performer does a version of another's song, and gives...

Sight and sex viewed through a window.

This video work was made while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition...

A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world. Swiss artist...

In this détourned music video, Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the form and of pop culture in general....

The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as...

A Persian carpet melts, dragon fly wings transform into wild leaves, we glide under giant poppies, a naked giant does yoga over us.