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Original title: East Coast, West Coast
Year: 1969
Running time: 22 min.
Country: United States
Director: Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson
Screenwriter: Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson (B&W)
Producer: Holt/Smithson Foundation. Distributor: Electronic Arts Intermix, Video Data Bank
Genre: Documentary | Short Film. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: East Coast, West Coast, Holt and Smithson’s first collaborative experiment with video, takes the form of a humorous bi-coastal art dialogue. Joined by their friends Joan Jonas and Peter Campus, Holt and Smithson improvise a conversation based on opposing – and stereotypical – positions of East Coast and West Coast art of the late 1960s. Holt assumes the role of an intellectual conceptual artist from New York, while Smithson plays the laid back Californian driven by feelings and instinct. Their deadpan exchange ironically lays bare the limitations and contradictions of both sides in the debate.

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East Coast, West Coast (S)

1969

Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson