Performance Art Movies

  • 1993
    The Restless Garden

    The Restless Garden

    The Restless Garden

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    Summer 1991. The last days of the Soviet Empire. Dark clouds gathered over Moscow as the Soviet government prepared to turn back the clock of history....

    The Restless Garden
  • 1983
    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams

    Turtle Dreams

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    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...

    Turtle Dreams
  • 2010
    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

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    "What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier, A...

    Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
  • 2025
    Premium Economy

    Premium Economy

    Premium Economy

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    Confronting a meter-high red cordon, Anna Uddenberg questions our social consensus: "How can a fragile piece of red fabric so easily direct the flow o...

    Premium Economy
  • 1968
    Stamping in the Studio

    Stamping in the Studio

    Stamping in the Studio

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    From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a generat...

    Stamping in the Studio
  • 2016
    The Opening

    The Opening

    The Opening

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

    The Opening
  • 1964
    Meat Joy

    Meat Joy

    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, r...

    Meat Joy
  • 2013
    Pinta

    Pinta

    Pinta

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    Dubbings, stunts, remixes, aesthetic covers. Diffuse, decentralized, peripheral, tipsy. Theme: an extemporaneous choreographic chanchada. Content: art...

    Pinta
  • 2018
    White Rabbit

    White Rabbit

    White Rabbit

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    A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in m...

    White Rabbit
  • 2020
    SHUT UP AND DRAG-SE

    SHUT UP AND DRAG-SE

    SHUT UP AND DRAG-SE

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    A documentary that follows the Bixa Pare Collective during an edition of the Sarau Bixaria Literária, exploring art, freedom of expression, and issues...

    SHUT UP AND DRAG-SE
  • 2006
    The Action Art Of Hermann Nitsch From Past To Present

    The Action Art Of Hermann Nitsch From Past To Present

    The Action Art Of Hermann Nitsch From Past To Present

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    Actions 1962–2003 (1 DVD-PAL) plus a CD containing recordings from the Burgtheater performance 2005. Hand-numbered first edition of 1000 copies. The...

    The Action Art Of Hermann Nitsch From Past To Present
  • 1990
    Performance Pieces

    Performance Pieces

    Performance Pieces

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    Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance ar...

    Performance Pieces
  • 2012
    This Is Not a Dream

    This Is Not a Dream

    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 legaci...

    This Is Not a Dream
  • 1996
    Crimewave

    Crimewave

    Crimewave

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    Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot...

    Crimewave
  • 2022
    Lost and Found: Billkin & PP Krit First Worldwide Digital Performance

    Lost and Found: Billkin & PP Krit First Worldwide Digital Performance

    Lost and Found: Billkin & PP Krit First Worldwide Digital Performance

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    Actors/singers Billkin & PP Krit, who have been gaining momentum, not only in Thailand but all over the world, present their first worldwide digital p...

    Lost and Found: Billkin & PP Krit First Worldwide Digital Performance
  • 2005
    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version

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    The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations are juxtap...

    Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version
  • 1978
    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

    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
  • 2021
    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

    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 Ab...

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento
  • 1974
    Sauce

    Sauce

    Sauce

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    The performance takes place in a small setting with an audience, but that's only a part of the artwork. After filming the performance he uses them aga...

    Sauce
  • 2017
    My Trip to Miami

    My Trip to Miami

    My Trip to Miami

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    My Trip to Miami follows a well-meaning, misguided, tourist as he tries to self-actualize via Trip Advisors algorithmic script. My Trip to Miami is a...

    My Trip to Miami