Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Environmental-art superstar Christo and his longtime collaborator, Jeanne-Claude transformed the world’s landscapes into epic canvases for their awe-inspiring site-specific installations. Though their staggering achievements—including an enormous curtain hung between two Colorado mountains and a floating fabric walkway built on an Italian lake—were designed to be ephemeral, they frequently inspired filmmakers, particularly documentary masters Albert and David Maysles, to preserve their creations on celluloid. Films like RUNNING FENCE, which depicts the artists’ struggle to build a twenty-four-mile fence out of white nylon fabric, capture the monumental vision, superhuman determination, and unique relationship that drove an extraordinary artistic partnership.