Doug Aitken Movies

A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in...

A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A...

Sending a burning arrow into the stunting effects that the compartmentalization of culture has on how creativity manifests, visual artist Doug Aitken...

Blow Debris similarly suggests narrative but prefers to offer it in the form of a drifting, almost aimless experience; the piece enacts a passage or...

An installation commissioned to be projected on the outer ring of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Aitken wanted to create three music videos, each with their own narrative, to be aired separately at different times as part of his commercial...

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

Children of long distance lorry drivers, travelling with their fathers, become involved in attempted hijacking.

An elderly couple gaze into one another's eyes as a house is demolished around them

In Doug Aitken’s cinemascope-like, walk-in, multi-sectioned, video installation, the public is transported into the atmosphere of an airport by...

The images in migration (empire) are underscored by the constant sound of running or dripping water. Aitken portrays the wild animals in the...