Movies: Performance art

  • 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
  • 1983
    Dream City

    Dream City (1983)

    Dream City

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    Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together ja...

    Dream City
  • 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
  • 1999
    Balkan Baroque

    Balkan Baroque (1999)

    Balkan Baroque

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    Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematog...

    Balkan Baroque
  • 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
  • 2021
    normal eating

    normal eating (2021)

    normal eating

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    A group of people return to see the feast....

    normal eating
  • 1997
    The Glass II

    The Glass II (1997)

    The Glass II

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    A ritual about"memory". The words and phrases written on the paper are easy to understand but difficult to define, substituting the usual " incantations to gods". The spat out red matter suggests kind of "refusal". This kind of "nauseous" mixture com...

    The Glass II
  • 2002
    The Legend of Leigh Bowery

    The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002)

    The Legend of Leigh Bowery

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    Welcome to the over-the-top, extravagant world of Leigh Bowery, a key figure in New Romanticism and London nightlife in the 1980s. With his bizarre outfits, a mix of kitsch and fetish, and his eccentric performances, he influenced artists, musicians ...

    The Legend of Leigh Bowery
  • 1969
    The Human Musician

    The Human Musician (1969)

    The Human Musician

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    An adaptation of Magda's live performance of The Human Musician...

    The Human Musician
  • 1983
    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams (1983)

    Turtle Dreams

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    Turtle Dreams, produced for WGBH-TV, originally aired September 2, 1983. Shot by Ping Chong. Composed by Meredith Monk, performed by her and her Vocal Ensemble....

    Turtle Dreams
  • 2003
    Weird Woman (State I and State II)

    Weird Woman (State I and State II) (2003)

    Weird Woman (State I and State II)

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    Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and ...

    Weird Woman (State I and State II)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007 (2007)

    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

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    The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain from September 23, 2006 to June 14, 2007. Starting from the hamlet of Rock, Northumberland, the artis...

    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007
  • 1971
    I'm Too Sad to Tell You

    I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971)

    I'm Too Sad to Tell You

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    This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the title of the work as a caption. The film was initially ten minutes long, and included Ader rubbing his e...

    I'm Too Sad to Tell You
  • 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
  • 1978
    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait (1978)

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

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    A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña....

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
  • 2006
    Wallflower

    Wallflower (2006)

    Wallflower

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    An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu....

    Wallflower
  • 2005
    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version (2005)

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

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    Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations are juxtaposed with the joys of the female and male sexual forms from which all human life originate...

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version
  • 2007
    The Announcer

    The Announcer (2007)

    The Announcer

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    An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for interesting-looking men....

    The Announcer