7.6 /10 1 Votes
65% Moviefone Directed by James Crump Edited by Nick Tamburri Director James Crump Distributor First Run Features | 7/10 IMDb 94% Rotten Tomatoes Written by James Crump Initial release 1 October 2015 Box office 38,571 USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by James Crump
Ronnie Sassoon
Farley Ziegler
Michael Comte Starring Nancy Holt
Lawrence Weiner
Vito Acconci
Dennis Oppenheim
Robert Smithson
Michael Heizer
Germano Celant
Harald Szeemann
Virginia Dwan
Willoughby Sharp
Carl Andre
Charles Ross
Gianfranco Gorgoni
Paula Cooper
Pamela Sharp Cinematography Alexandre Themistocleous
Robert O'Haire Music director Petar Alargic, Travis Huff Cast Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt, Germano Celant Similar Artist movies, Documentaries Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Troublemakers the story of land art official trailer
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art is a 2015 American documentary film directed by James Crump. Troublemakers chronicles the history of land art in the 1960s and 1970s, when a group of radical New York artists began producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desert spaces of the American southwest. The film follows the enigmatic careers of artists who use the earth itself as their primary medium, including Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative).
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Reception
Eric Gibson of The Wall Street Journal gave the film a positive review, writing, "A film that takes its place among the great art documentaries of the past half-century... filled with great moments, large and small... deftly captures the madcap ambition, grandeur and even sublimity of the works these artists created." Glenn Kenny of The New York Times in a NYT Critics' Pick called it a "thrilling documentary," writing "The film’s generous views of spectacular works like Smithson’s monumental (Spiral Jetty) (the work projects into the Great Salt Lake in Utah) and Mr. Heizer’s (Double Negative) in Nevada (a huge trench bisected by a canyon) are best seen on the largest screen available." John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a colorful and sometimes gorgeous primer on this influential moment." Jordan Hoffman, writing for The Guardian of London proclaimed "Forget Dawn of Justice – this is the best superhero team-up we’ll see at the cinema this year." Writing for The Huffington Post, Patricia Zohn declared Troublemakers "does something that is rare for art documentaries: It is very beautiful and dynamic itself in examining work that is challenging. It meets the subject head-on."
Troublemakers has a score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and 65% on Metacritic.
Release
The film premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival on October 1, 2015, and released theatrically on January 8, 2016, via First Run Features.
