Christo’s Valley Curtain

In 1974, Christo built a valley curtain across a mountain pass in the southern United States. This is a record of his struggle and stunning achievement. “‘Valley Curtain’ is by far the finest film I have ever seen about an artist and his work. Technically brilliant, beautifully paced, with not an image wasted or held too long, the film somehow makes it possible for the viewer to become involved at a deep and personal level with the whole marvelous epic. ‘Christo’s Valley Curtain’ is never didactic; it neither explains nor describes and this is its great strength . On its own terms, the film is as novel, as surprising, as hilarious and, in the end, as beautiful as the work of art with which it deals.” – Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker Magazine