Nude Decending the Stairs

Overview

The motif of having people slowly approach the camera first appears in Nude Descending the Stairs, an interesting minimalist work made up of three single-take, single-angle black and white silent rolls during each of which one person - in one instance, Huot dressed in a white painter's jumpsuit; in the others, a naked woman (Marie Antoinette) - slowly descends a four storey staircase toward the camera. Because of the camera's upward angle, the descents are translated into level forward motions during which the two people grow larger with each step they take. The film's concern with the manipulation of space and with the details of human motion through it, accounts for both the title and the inscription 'for Duchamp and Muybridge.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1970

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

Robert Huot

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5790794