Movies: Performance art

  • 1999
    Balkan Baroque

    Balkan Baroque (1999)

    Balkan Baroque

    5.51999HD

    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
  • 2023
    Moving Together

    Moving Together (2023)

    Moving Together

    02023HD

    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
  • 1983
    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams (1983)

    Turtle Dreams

    01983HD

    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
  • 2002
    The Legend of Leigh Bowery

    The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002)

    The Legend of Leigh Bowery

    7.22002HD

    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
  • 1983
    Diorama

    Diorama (1983)

    Diorama

    01983HD

    A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London...

    Diorama
  • 2010
    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice (2010)

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

    02010HD

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

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
  • 2005
    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version (2005)

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

    4.22005HD

    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
  • 2025
    Dragphoria

    Dragphoria (2025)

    Dragphoria

    102025HD

    Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial....

    Dragphoria
  • 2022
    Eggshells

    Eggshells (2022)

    Eggshells

    102022HD

    Created in response to a traumatic hate crime, artist, Venus Patel, explores her emotional journey through several archetypes, each of whom perform with an egg. Using the weapon of the assailant, the egg itself becomes a tool with many psychological ...

    Eggshells
  • 2024
    Corpo Presente

    Corpo Presente (2024)

    Corpo Presente

    02024HD

    A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of ...

    Corpo Presente
  • 2004
    Pistolteatern

    Pistolteatern (2004)

    Pistolteatern

    02004HD

    Pistolteatern in Stockholm, Sweden, was a leading experimental scene in the mid 1960s, comparable to the Living Theater in New York. In the years 1964-67. Pistolteatern produced theatre plays, exhibitions and happenings at a very high pace. The name,...

    Pistolteatern
  • 1998
    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks

    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks (1998)

    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks

    01998HD

    This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "A...

    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks
  • 2020
    Saul & I

    Saul & I (2020)

    Saul & I

    02020HD

    Nina Regan, an established performance artist, launches her much-anticipated exhibition, the first since spending a decade in prison for the killing of her long-term collaborator Saul Olufsen....

    Saul & I
  • 2012
    No Contract

    No Contract (2012)

    No Contract

    02012HD

    No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and escape, as well as the notions of torment and renewal, desire and destruction....

    No Contract
  • 1971
    Shoot

    Shoot (1971)

    Shoot

    01971HD

    November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”....

    Shoot
  • 1984
    Maimed Artist

    Maimed Artist (1984)

    Maimed Artist

    01984HD

    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
  • 1976
    Freeing The Body

    Freeing The Body (1976)

    Freeing The Body

    01976HD

    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
  • 2021
    Vanitas

    Vanitas (2021)

    Vanitas

    102021HD

    "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
  • 2021
    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook (2021)

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    02021HD

    In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audien...

    By Rook Or By Left Hook
  • 2016
    The Opening

    The Opening (2016)

    The Opening

    02016HD

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

    The Opening