John Baldessari Movies

  • 1972
    Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

    Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

    Teaching a Plant the Alphabet

    01972HD

    “[A] rather perverse exercise in futility,” this tape documents Baldessari’s response to Joseph Beuys’s influential...

    Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
  • 1973
    Four Short Films

    Four Short Films

    Four Short Films

    01973HD

    Contemporaneous to his best-known video works, these Super-8mm films represent Baldessari's conceptual engagement with motion picture film, pointing...

    Four Short Films