One minute. One fall. One artist making failure his masterpiece.
Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.
Direction
Ader turns a backyard stunt into conceptual art history.
Practical Effects
Zero CGI. Just a man, a chair, and bad decisions.
Editing
The cut to black hits harder than the ground.
Director
Bas Jan Ader
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ader's 'Falls' series helped define conceptual art's obsession with documented failure as legitimate practice.
The Inland Empire location wasn't chosen for Lynchian vibes—Ader just lived there. The universe did the rest.
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