Movies: Performance art

  • 2011
    Casting Jesus

    Casting Jesus (2011)

    Casting Jesus

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    The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members....

    Casting Jesus
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Quiet Silence

    The Quiet Silence (2016)

    The Quiet Silence

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    Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?...

    The Quiet Silence
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Apple Pie

    Apple Pie (2016)

    Apple Pie

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    Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Struct...

    Apple Pie
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Felt TV

    Felt TV (1970)

    Felt TV

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    "As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966. It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the c...

    Felt TV
  • 2022
    B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?

    B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? (2022)

    B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?

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    An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist, teacher and performer....

    B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?
  • 1976
    Freeing The Body

    Freeing The Body (1976)

    Freeing The Body

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    Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically to the sounds of a bongo player. During the early part of the performance, she still has plenty of energy, and she r...

    Freeing The Body
  • 1996
    Device

    Device (1996)

    Device

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    Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance...

    Device
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice (2010)

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

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    A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007....

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
  • 2022
    In The Pines

    In The Pines (2022)

    In The Pines

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    This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and "mechanical", "reality" and "representation", "wholeness" and "partiality", " determinacy” and “indeterminacy...

    In The Pines