Movies:

  • 1999
    The Third Memory

    The Third Memory (1999)

    The Third Memory

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    Using time, memory, and the texture of everyday experience as his mediums, Pierre Huyghe conflates the traditional dichotomy between art and life. Working in an array of cultural formats—from billboards and television broadcasts to community celebrat...

    The Third Memory
  • 2013
    A Way in Untilled

    A Way in Untilled (2013)

    A Way in Untilled

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    For dOCUMENTA(13) (2012) Pierre Huyghe created Untilled, a compost site within a baroque garden, a non hierarchical association that included a sculpture of a reclining nude with a head obscured by a swarming beehive, aphrodisiac and psychotropic pla...

    A Way in Untilled
  • 2006
    A Journey That Wasn't

    A Journey That Wasn't (2006)

    A Journey That Wasn't

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    An expedition leaves Ushuaia for the Antarctic circle. Pierre Huyghe, along with six other artists, is brought aboard Jean-Louis Etienne's boat in search of an uncharted island inhabited by a strange creature. Imprisoned by ice floats, they come acro...

    A Journey That Wasn't
  • 2001
    Le Château de Turing

    Le Château de Turing (2001)

    Le Château de Turing

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    What characterizes the Turing machine is first of all its universality: the borders between the cognitive modes of man, animal and machine are abolished. Among all the possible Turing machines, the one Pierre Huyghe presents contains three methods of...

    Le Château de Turing
  • 2002
    Block Party

    Block Party (2002)

    Block Party

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    The image shows two faces of the story of hip-hop music, which submerged in the seventies in the New York outskirts of The Bronx. Two vinyl records are turning on a turntable. On the one hand the soundtrack is heard of three decades ago, on the other...

    Block Party
  • 2013
    The Host and the Cloud

    The Host and the Cloud (2013)

    The Host and the Cloud

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    In a disused ethnographic museum located in a former human and animal zoo, an experiment unfolds over the course of one year....

    The Host and the Cloud
  • 2024
    Camata

    Camata (2024)

    Camata

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    A self-directed film continuously edited in real-time by Artificial Intelligence, Camata draws on footage shot in the Atacama Desert....

    Camata
  • 1997
    Snow White Lucie

    Snow White Lucie (1997)

    Snow White Lucie

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    Pierre Huyghe's work questions how diverse languages can apply to the same reality. In his short film Blanche-Neige Lucie (Snow White Lucie), Huyghe tells the story of Lucie Dolene who sang in the French version of Disney's Snow White and the Seven D...

    Snow White Lucie
  • 2011
    Chew the Fat

    Chew the Fat (2011)

    Chew the Fat

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    "Chew The Fat" (Informal) - To have a long friendly conversation with someone. In the film project 'Chew The Fat', the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, living in New York portraits a group of 12 artists (Douglas Gordon, Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, Phil...

    Chew the Fat
  • 2001
    One Million Kingdoms

    One Million Kingdoms (2001)

    One Million Kingdoms

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    In Huyghe’s animation, an adolescent girl wanders through a shifting lunar topography and, speaking in a digitally synthesized form of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s voice, delivers a narration blending the actual transmissions from the Apollo 11 mission...

    One Million Kingdoms
  • 2014
    De-Extinction

    De-Extinction (2014)

    De-Extinction

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    Huyghe's film installation captures a moment of reproduction between insects over 30 million years old. The title resonates with current scientific experiments into the de-extinction of prehistoric species....

    De-Extinction
  • 2015
    Untitled (Human Mask)

    Untitled (Human Mask) (2015)

    Untitled (Human Mask)

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    The ‘Human Mask’ film is inspired by a real situation in Japan, in which a monkey – wearing the mask of a young woman – has been trained to work as a waitress. The film opens with footage of the deserted site of Fukushima in 2011, the camera function...

    Untitled (Human Mask)
  • 1998
    L'Ellipse

    L'Ellipse (1998)

    L'Ellipse

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    Pierre Huyghe’s video installation consists of an extended panoramic screen bearing three projections shown in sequence from left to right. The left and right ends of the screen are clips from Wim Wenders’s 1977 film, The American Friend. The center ...

    L'Ellipse
  • 2003
    I, Jedi

    I, Jedi (2003)

    I, Jedi

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    Jediism, a movement devoted to establishing an internationally recognized faith, was born in 1977, shortly after the release of George Lucas's first Star Wars film. Huyghe's film serves as a mini-documentary devoted to this newly invented myth....

    I, Jedi
  • 2004
    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming (2004)

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming

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    The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a reconfiguration of the present, and featuring musical compositions by Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varese, who collabo...

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming
  • 2003
    Streamside Day

    Streamside Day (2003)

    Streamside Day

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    Streamside Day, explores the formative role of ideological and semiotic systems in establishing social rituals and traditions. Huyghe's exhibition includes five murals, concealed behind five supplementary walls, which are revealed when the walls begi...

    Streamside Day