The Dryden will screen Christo's Valley Curtain (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Ellen Giffard, U.S. 1974, 28 min., 35mm), and Running Fence (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, U.S. 1977, 58 min., 16mm).

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary—short Subject, Valley Curtain celebrates Christo's dramatic hanging of a huge orange curtain between two Colorado mountains. Since the late 1950s, the Bulgarian-born artist's large-scale temporary works of art have helped change our perception of art and society. Running Fence depicts the long struggle by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to build a 24-mile fence of white fabric over the hills of California disappearing into the Pacific. Cost: $3 million. The idea at first must seem the limit of absurdity, for the fence was taken down as planned at the end of two weeks and now exists solely on film.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jul-27]