Movies: Performance art

  • 2024
    Angry Belly

    Angry Belly (2024)

    Angry Belly

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    The intimate portrait of M, a Brooklyn performance artist, whose life quickly spirals into absurdity as the reality of her unwanted pregnancy sets in....

    Angry Belly
  • 2016
    The Opening

    The Opening (2016)

    The Opening

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    A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience....

    The Opening
  • 2002
    The Bridegroom Stripped Bare

    The Bridegroom Stripped Bare (2002)

    The Bridegroom Stripped Bare

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    A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen....

    The Bridegroom Stripped Bare
  • 2012
    This Is Not a Dream

    This Is Not a Dream (2012)

    This Is Not a Dream

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    The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the legacies of this revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance. Charting a path...

    This Is Not a Dream
  • 1970
    Fall 1

    Fall 1 (1970)

    Fall 1

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    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....

    Fall 1
  • 1977
    Relation in Space

    Relation in Space (1977)

    Relation in Space

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    In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat t...

    Relation in Space
  • 1999
    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York (1999)

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

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    A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he flamboyantly strolls through Manhattan's Meatpacking District, outrageously costumed in a self-made reint...

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York
  • 2004
    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem (2004)

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

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    1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic Harvest From The Kingdom Of Pain 6 Virtues Of Negative Fascination 7 Seven Machine Performances...

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
  • 2023
    Feminine Singular

    Feminine Singular (2023)

    Feminine Singular

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    A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilience, strength, and unique perspectives on womanhood through performance art....

    Feminine Singular
  • 2002
    Eat Fashion

    Eat Fashion (2002)

    Eat Fashion

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    Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film....

    Eat Fashion
  • 2021
    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento (2021)

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

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    THE ARTIST AND THE FORCE OF THOUGHT, reflects the relationship between balance and imbalance within the partiality of movement of the dancer Marcos Abranches. It oscillates the body to wake up from the emptiness and isolation caused by the imbalance....

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento
  • 2021
    Vanitas

    Vanitas (2021)

    Vanitas

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    "Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as beautiful, but shallow and useless; vanity is a deadly sin. A female sin. The man painted the woman, put a...

    Vanitas
  • 2020
    Sympatico

    Sympatico (2020)

    Sympatico

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    In the dystopian 2040, a performance artist shots himself dead in front of a live audience. While the extreme act shocks the society, his friend is kidnapped and interrogated as a murder suspect; he has to prove his innocence to survive....

    Sympatico
  • 1984
    Maimed Artist

    Maimed Artist (1984)

    Maimed Artist

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    Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of one hand during experimentation. 'Maimed Artist' explores the often destructive world of such perfor...

    Maimed Artist
  • 1979
    16 Millimeter Earrings

    16 Millimeter Earrings (1979)

    16 Millimeter Earrings

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    A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York....

    16 Millimeter Earrings
  • 2010
    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm (2010)

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

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    "What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier, ANT FARM Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is the first film to consider the...

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
  • 1987
    A Study In Scarlet

    A Study In Scarlet (1987)

    A Study In Scarlet

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    A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original 'diorama' building in London. Followed by a celebration of the body and mind. The admission of sexual awakening and freedom. A tribute to the works of Georges Bat...

    A Study In Scarlet
  • 2020
    Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time

    Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time (2020)

    Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time

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    The definitive documentary that reviews the enormous career of Esther Ferrer, one of the great Spanish creators in the performance genre. A "hybrid" between the documentary and the discipline of performance itself, between recording and creation, whi...

    Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time
  • 2022
    First Movement Form

    First Movement Form (2022)

    First Movement Form

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    The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories....

    First Movement Form
  • 2020
    Yellow

    Yellow (2020)

    Yellow

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    In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness and one thing that always brings out the best in experiencing something together, is food. But what hap...

    Yellow