Bruce Dunlap

A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

This short documentary celebrates the late conceptual artist Chris Burden’s landmark work “Shoot,” in which a friend shot him in the arm. [Overview Courtesy of The New York Times]