Stories on Human Rights
20 short films about human rights.
See morePixel Forest
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...
See morePeeping Freedom Shutters for Amaranta Gómez Regalado (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_E)
Life and fireworks seen through a window.
See morePepperminta
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young...
See moreWhen My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill
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...
See moreSip My Ocean
Sip My Ocean, a video projected as two mirrored reflections on adjoining walls, offers a kaleidoscopic view of an idyllic underwater paradise, with...
See morePeeping Freedom Pavilion for Sojourner Truth (Apollomat horizontal screen PFP)
Love, memory, nature, and intimacy collide.
See morePeeping Freedom Shutters for Osakabe Sayaka (Apollomat vertical screen PFS_D)
Sight and sex viewed through a window.
See moreNeighbors Without Fences (Apollomatmember)
No bigger than ants, we glide through an Arcadian garden.
See moreWorry Will Vanish Horizon
For her London exhibition, ‘Worry Will Vanish’, Rist has transformed the gallery into a fully immersive, sensory environment. Projected against two...
See moreSelfless in the Bath of Lava
Selbstlos im Lavabad is comprised of a small film embedded in a hole on the floor. In the film, the artist swims nude in an incandescent lava bath...
See more(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes
Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing...
See moreI'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much
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...
See moreBlutclip
Rist's body is the canvas in this surreal montage. Unflinching displays of the artist's own menstrual blood are juxtaposed with images of gemstones...
See moreRainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)
This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.
See morePickelporno
In this visual evocation of sex and sexuality, a man and woman stage an elaborately choreographed courtship ritual, edited with Rist's usual...
See moreI'm a Victim of This Song
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...
See moreWelling Color Island East
Patterns swirl and melt, a woman falls backwards into a galaxy, a naked giant does yoga over us.
See moreWelling Color Island West
A Persian carpet melts, dragon fly wings transform into wild leaves, we glide under giant poppies, a naked giant does yoga over us.
See moreSexy Sad I
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. Her...
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