Movies: Performance art
- 2018
Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project: Volume One (2018)
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Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the first Athens Rising film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of...
- 2022
In The Pines (2022)
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This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and "mechanical", "reality" and "representation", "wholeness" and "partiality", " determinacy” and “indeterminacy...
- 2016
The Opening (2016)
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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....
- 2007
The Announcer (2007)
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An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for interesting-looking men....
- 2019
Mi arma (2019)
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A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression....
- 2003
Weird Woman (State I and State II) (2003)
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Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and ...
- 2001
Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body (2001)
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Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the disturbing and grotesque as fairy tale narratives and foods are transformed into tableaus of abuse and viola...
- 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...
- 2023
Moving Together (2023)
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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 ...
- 1991
The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess (1991)
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A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless Abundance ...", ArtSpace Computer-Controlled Installation, "A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion ...", plus det...
- 1984
Maimed Artist (1984)
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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...
- 1964
Meat Joy (1964)
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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, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tend...
- 2022
B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? (2022)
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An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist, teacher and performer....
- 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....
- 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...
- 2020
Esther Ferrer: Threads of Time (2020)
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The definitive documentary that reviews the enormous career of Esther Ferrer, one of the great Spanish creators in the performance genre. A "hybrid" between the documentary and the discipline of performance itself, between recording and creation, whi...
- 2012
Broad Sense (2012)
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Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses to the artist’s visits....
- 1997
The Glass II (1997)
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A ritual about"memory". The words and phrases written on the paper are easy to understand but difficult to define, substituting the usual " incantations to gods". The spat out red matter suggests kind of "refusal". This kind of "nauseous" mixture com...
- 1998
Grinder-Man - G-VTR01 (1998)
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A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS....
- 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...