Movies: Performance art
- 1998
Out O' Actions (1998)
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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...
- 2022
First Movement Form (2022)
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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....
- 2015
All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie) (2015)
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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...
- 2009
Real Snow White (2009)
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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....
- 2008
Joseph Beuys - Coyote III (2008)
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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...
- 2007
A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion (2007)
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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...
- 1980
Primal Scenes (1980)
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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’...
- 2022
Solaris (2022)
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Performative cinema experience with live music....
- 1994
Omniprésence (1994)
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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....
- 1971
Broken Fall (Organic) (1971)
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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....
- 2022
Blood on the Carpet (2022)
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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....
- 2019
Glittering Misfits (2019)
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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...
- 2020
The Vanity (2020)
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A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain....
- 2016
Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016– (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...
- 2005
Damn! The Threnody In Me! (2005)
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A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."...
- 2013
You Don't Need Feet to Dance (2013)
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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...
- 1967
13/67: Sinus Beta (1967)
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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...
- 1997
Six Boxes (Lifesize) (1997)
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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....
- 1972
Seedbed (1972)
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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...
- 2024
Mirie It Is (Dusking II) (2024)
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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...