Running Fence is a documentary following the process of
Cristo and Jeanne-Claude’s land art piece of the same name. The documentary
shows the elaborate process of negotiation, collaboration, and building which
the piece required in order to be pulled off. Even with all of the planning
already done beforehand, the pair encounter legal difficulties and must do some
maneuvering in order to accomplish the project which they had already begun. Most
interesting about the work itself is perhaps the collaboration it requires, not
only with volunteers to help with the construction of the fabric fence, but
also with the people whose land the fence runs through. It brings art into
their lives in a very tangible way, such that they must themselves examine what
art is and what its function is in their lives, which is part of Cristo and
Jeanne-Claude’s intended purpose with the piece itself.
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