Friday, June 26, 2026 | 6:00 PM
📍 Uncanny Art House | 106 E Main St, Norman, OK

Levitated Mass is a documentary about one of the most ambitious public art installations in recent memory: artist Michael Heizer's 340-ton granite boulder, transported over eleven nights through the streets of Los Angeles before coming to rest at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The film follows the years of planning, the logistical nightmare of moving an object that size through a living city, and the conversations it sparked about what art is, what it costs, and who it belongs to.

Director Doug Pray captures not just the spectacle of the move itself, but the human story around it. Residents lined the streets at 2 a.m. to watch the rock roll past their neighborhoods. Critics questioned the $10 million price tag. Heizer, famously reclusive, gave rare access to the process. What emerges is a portrait of an artist who thinks in geological time and a public that wasn't sure what to make of him.

The installation, titled Rock My World and eventually renamed Levitated Mass, sits over a slot trench at LACMA, allowing visitors to walk beneath a boulder that has existed for 340 million years. The film asks what it means to move something ancient into a contemporary context, and whether the disruption was worth it.

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4th Friday Films is a film screening series in partnership with Pioneer Library System and Uncanny Art House to bring educational screenings and films to downtown Norman, Oklahoma. The films we screen are based on the current exhibition and are free and open to the public with a discussion following each each showing.

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