"Filmed on the beach at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, Flanagan buried a hollow plastic cylinder in the sand during a rising tide filming the mysterious hole that appeared before the waves finally engulfed the cylinder." (Source, site web, Art gallery of New South Wales)
"A Hole in the Sea existed only as a concept on paper until Gerry Schum asked Barry Flanagan to realise it on film for the television exhibition Land Art. As shot, it is both a witty example of conceptual art’s ‘dematerialisation of the art object’ (in Lucy Lippard’s memorable phrase), and an engaging visual conundrum." (Source, site web, Tate)
"Filmed with Gerry Schum in Scheveningen, Holland, February 1969, for Land Art TV exhibition.
Black & white copy held in the collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands " (Source, site web de l'artiste, barryflanagan.com)
Postcard announcement for Gerry Schum's Land Art exhibition showing a still from A Hole in the Sea, 1969 : Source, site web de l'artiste, barryflanagan.com.
Photogrammes : Source 1 ; 2 ; 3, site web de l'artiste, barryflanagan.com.