Paul McCarthy Movies

  • 2020
    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    Becoming Paul McCarthy

    02020HD

    On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist

    Becoming Paul McCarthy
  • 2025
    A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Mother

    A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Mother

    A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Mother

    102025HD

    16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf...

    A&E, Adolf & Eva / Adam & Eve, Mother
  • 2004
    WGG (Wild Gone Girls)

    WGG (Wild Gone Girls)

    WGG (Wild Gone Girls)

    02004HD

    Depicting a sailing party gone wrong. McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in...

    WGG (Wild Gone Girls)
  • 1995
    Painter

    Painter

    Painter

    101995HD

    In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract...

    Painter
  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    01998HD

    Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

    Out O' Actions
  • 1971
    Ma Bell

    Ma Bell

    Ma Bell

    01971HD

    Paul McCarthy’s Ma Bell (1971/1972) is an early, visceral performance video featuring the artist in a room filled with black motor oil and...

    Ma Bell
  • 2010
    Aryan Death Ship

    Aryan Death Ship

    Aryan Death Ship

    02010HD

    In 1983, Paul McCarthy realised the performance Aryan Death Ship in which the artist assumed the authoritative figure of the captain of an...

    Aryan Death Ship
  • 1972
    Red Poster Tapes

    Red Poster Tapes

    Red Poster Tapes

    01972HD

    Paul McCarthy’s “Red Poster Tapes,” created in 1971-72, faithfully carry out a series of straightforward but bizarre instructions:...

    Red Poster Tapes