Paul McCarthy Movies

  • 1976
    Class Fool

    Class Fool

    Class Fool

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    In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San Di...

    Class Fool
  • 1975
    Black and White Tapes

    Black and White Tapes

    Black and White Tapes

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    Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the came...

    Black and White Tapes
  • 2001
    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body

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    Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the disturbi...

    Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body
  • 1974
    Sauce

    Sauce

    Sauce

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    Performance art piece

    Sauce
  • 2014
    The Art Foundry

    The Art Foundry

    The Art Foundry

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    The Art Foundry
  • 1975
    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)

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    Here, the artist performs as the female protagonist of Russ Meyer’s soft-porn film, Europe in the Raw! (1963). Done up in black lace lingerie, heavy m...

    Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)
  • 2020
    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

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    On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist

    Becoming Paul McCarthy
  • 1987
    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)

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    Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing....

    Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
  • 1987
    Cultural Soup

    Cultural Soup

    Cultural Soup

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    A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of ed...

    Cultural Soup
  • 1992
    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

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    A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size rubbe...

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
  • 2019
    Coach Stage Stage Coach

    Coach Stage Stage Coach

    Coach Stage Stage Coach

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    Paul McCarthy's reinterpretation of John Ford's classic western Stagecoach.

    Coach Stage Stage Coach