Movies: Performance art

  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions (1998)

    Out O' Actions

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    Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles during the inaugural exhibition of "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Obje...

    Out O' Actions
  • 2022
    First Movement Form

    First Movement Form (2022)

    First Movement Form

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    The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories....

    First Movement Form
  • 2015
    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie) (2015)

    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

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    Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no exception, from a short that interrogates “things that mean other things before becoming a thing that means other...

    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)
  • 2009
    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White (2009)

    Real Snow White

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    The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from entering the theme park dressed as Snow White....

    Real Snow White
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes (1980)

    Primal Scenes

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    Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister Joan’s growing awareness of her body’s sensuousness and sexuality. Primal Scenes is an excellent example of women’...

    Primal Scenes
  • 2022
    Solaris

    Solaris (2022)

    Solaris

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    Performative cinema experience with live music....

    Solaris
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 2022
    Blood on the Carpet

    Blood on the Carpet (2022)

    Blood on the Carpet

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    A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of internal demons....

    Blood on the Carpet
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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–
  • 2005
    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

    Damn! The Threnody In Me! (2005)

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

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    A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."...

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!
  • 2013
    You Don't Need Feet to Dance

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance (2013)

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance

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    In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City, from his f...

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta (1967)

    13/67: Sinus Beta

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    Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body i...

    13/67: Sinus Beta
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 2024
    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II) (2024)

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

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    Dusking is a project by the artist Lucy Wright—a newly invented tradition, conceived as the counterpart to the morris dancing that takes place on 1 May marking the arrival of summer. Taking place instead on 31 October, it invites participants—who joi...

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)