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“Size is one third of sculpture,” claims contemporary artist Michael Heizer. A champion of large-scale negative space—typically natural formations with the “art” removed, or “monumental absences”—Heizer creates installations that say less about the artist’s aesthetic than about the enormity and eternity of his endeavor. Like Stonehenge, we may not know why the pieces exist, but we’ll have millennia to ponder the question. His latest venture is moving a nearly billion-year-old boulder weighing 340 tons from a quarry 60 miles outside Los Angeles to the L.A. County Museum of Art, to be suspended over a trench and observed from below. Doug Pray’s film explores the undertaking from all angles, from the logistics of the move to the defensibility of its cost, suggesting that art, beyond physical beauty, serves as civilization’s bequest to posterity. A First Run Features release.

“Illuminating, engaging and unexpected. Well-directed, with exceptional access by veteran documentarian Doug Pray.” —The Los Angeles Times

“More entertaining than a glowing artist profile has any right to be.” —Andrew Lapin, The Dissolve

“Sneakily compelling.” —Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times