Spiral Jetty

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1970

Complete Record: Documents the construction of Robert Smithson’s largest earth work completed to date, a spiral jetty, jutting into the shallow offshore Great Salt Lake of Utah. Opening shot of solar wind. B/W moving shots of dirt road from car. Map of Great Salt Lake. Stack of Books. Red tint footage of dinosaur skeletons in museum. Surveyors maps, panning. Heavy earth- moving trucks contrast with insert shots of water surface and dinosaur stills. Helicopter shots of spiral jetty both alone and with man, presumably the artist, Robert Smithson, walking the length of the jetty. Interior tracking shot of film equipment and photograph of spiral jetty.