Movies: Performance art

  • 2008
    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III (2008)

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III

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    DVD accompanying the book "Coyote III", documenting Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik performing at the Sôgetsu Hall in Tokyo on the 2nd of June 1984. Nam June Paik sits on one side of the stage playing European classical music, improvisations and Japa...

    Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
  • 2002
    Eat Fashion

    Eat Fashion (2002)

    Eat Fashion

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    Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film....

    Eat Fashion
  • 1980
    The Big Wheel

    The Big Wheel (1980)

    The Big Wheel

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    During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6...

    The Big Wheel
  • 1971
    Broken Fall (Organic)

    Broken Fall (Organic) (1971)

    Broken Fall (Organic)

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    Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below....

    Broken Fall (Organic)
  • 2025
    Dragphoria

    Dragphoria (2025)

    Dragphoria

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    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
  • 1997
    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence) (1997)

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

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

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)
  • 1994
    Omniprésence

    Omniprésence (1994)

    Omniprésence

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    A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in 1993....

    Omniprésence
  • 1972
    Seedbed

    Seedbed (1972)

    Seedbed

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    “In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he masturbated eight hours a day while murmuring things like, "You're pushing your cunt down on my mouth" or "You're r...

    Seedbed
  • 2019
    Glittering Misfits

    Glittering Misfits (2019)

    Glittering Misfits

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    Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of artistic expression in New York’s Off-Off-Broadway. Meanwhile, they will help us to understand from their e...

    Glittering Misfits
  • 2021
    Doors and Windows

    Doors and Windows (2021)

    Doors and Windows

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    In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of....

    Doors and Windows
  • 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
  • 2017
    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release (2017)

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

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    Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to talk lovingly to each other for every day of their long marriage. And in a sense there was a glow around the...

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release
  • 1969
    Purfled Promises

    Purfled Promises (1969)

    Purfled Promises

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    Purfled Promises was a work of expanded cinema. Two neo-drag entities entered the cinema and held a screen in front of the auditorium's red curtain on which a video was shown that consisted entirely of zooming shots of veils revealing more veils, inc...

    Purfled Promises
  • 2007
    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion (2007)

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

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    Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance choreography in a collection of 29 scenes. Set in various locations - including a gymnasium, an abando...

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
  • 2020
    The Vanity

    The Vanity (2020)

    The Vanity

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    A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain....

    The Vanity
  • 2014
    When You Call Me That, Smile

    When You Call Me That, Smile (2014)

    When You Call Me That, Smile

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    A man leaves his quiet life in the country to become a comic entertainer in the Big City. His journey is a Surreal celebration of the descent into a Hell of narcissistic self-destruction. In a string of events ranging from antisocial transgression to...

    When You Call Me That, Smile
  • 2000
    Volunteer

    Volunteer (2000)

    Volunteer

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    A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen....

    Volunteer
  • 2016
    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016– (2016)

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–

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    Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the laws and punitive measures currently employed in the US regarding sex crimes, in addition to proposin...

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–
  • 1997
    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize) (1997)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

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    This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and volume) can be used to see the human figure as an object in three dimensional space....

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)
  • 2023
    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila (2023)

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

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    Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from her sickbed....

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila