Movies: Performance art

  • 1986
    Virtues Of Negative Fascination

    Virtues Of Negative Fascination (1986)

    Virtues Of Negative Fascination

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    Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless punishments....

    Virtues Of Negative Fascination
  • 1974
    Maigret and the Old Lady

    Maigret and the Old Lady (1974)

    Maigret and the Old Lady

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    Maigret and the Old Lady
  • 2022
    7 Deaths of Maria Callas

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2022)

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas

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    A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th ce...

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas
  • 1994
    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady (1994)

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady

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    Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a semiconfessional view of her life's landscape. Childhood memories of her father, a doctor, and her mother, an artist, are warmly rendered in scenes of th...

    Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy (2010)

    One Meter Democracy

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    One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang invited approximately 20 friends to vote in a secret ballot on whether he should have a surgeon cut a ...

    One Meter Democracy
  • 2013
    Art Girls

    Art Girls (2013)

    Art Girls

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    Three women artists from Berlin collaborate on an exhibition sponsored by a biotech firm and end up being the first people to experience the fascinating symptoms of an evolutionary leap....

    Art Girls
  • 2018
    White Rabbit

    White Rabbit (2018)

    White Rabbit

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    A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in modern Los Angeles....

    White Rabbit
  • 1969
    My Body Is Not My Home

    My Body Is Not My Home (1969)

    My Body Is Not My Home

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    My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the ‘Other’....

    My Body Is Not My Home
  • 2019
    El Cuerpo del Escándalo - Un film acerca de Natacha Voliakovsky

    El Cuerpo del Escándalo - Un film acerca de Natacha Voliakovsky (2019)

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    El Cuerpo del Escándalo - Un film acerca de Natacha Voliakovsky
  • 1998
    The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts

    The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts (1998)

    The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts

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    Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of the largest Survival Research Laboratories event ever. SRL adds 5000 spectators , 60 tons of machines , 50 srl members working tirelessly on site for 3 weeks, at an Austin, Texas racetrack to equal major mayhem. ...

    The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts
  • 2023
    Moving Together

    Moving Together (2023)

    Moving Together

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    Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate collaboration between dancers and musicians, moving seamlessly between Flamenco, Modern, and New Orleans ...

    Moving Together
  • 1964
    Meat Joy

    Meat Joy (1964)

    Meat Joy

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    "Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tend...

    Meat Joy
  • 2003
    Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live

    Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live (2003)

    Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live

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    Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that features concert footage, three full-length music videos and three songs from Blue Man Group's album, "The Complex." The live footage was filmed during B...

    Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour Live
  • 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
  • 1987
    Sexandroïde

    Sexandroïde (1987)

    Sexandroïde

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    Welcome to the temple of fear and eroticism, as a monstrous madman slowly mutilates poor young girls! See the sensual act of voodoo performed on an innocent bar patron! View the lustful bite of a vampire!...

    Sexandroïde
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1992
    Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women

    Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women (1992)

    Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women

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    A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her own trauma and loss during the Jim Crow-era South....

    Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women