Movies: Performance art
- 2024
Angry Belly (2024)
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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....
- 2016
The Opening (2016)
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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....
- 2002
The Bridegroom Stripped Bare (2002)
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A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen....
- 2012
This Is Not a Dream (2012)
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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...
- 1970
Fall 1 (1970)
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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....
- 1977
Relation in Space (1977)
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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...
- 1999
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York (1999)
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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...
- 2004
Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem (2004)
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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...
- 2023
Feminine Singular (2023)
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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....
- 2002
Eat Fashion (2002)
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Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film....
- 2021
O Artista e a Força do Pensamento (2021)
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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....
- 2021
Vanitas (2021)
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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...
- 2020
Sympatico (2020)
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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....
- 1984
Maimed Artist (1984)
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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...
- 1979
16 Millimeter Earrings (1979)
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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....
- 2010
Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm (2010)
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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...
- 1987
A Study In Scarlet (1987)
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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...
- 2020
Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time (2020)
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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...
- 2022
First Movement Form (2022)
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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....
- 2020
Yellow (2020)
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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...