Performance Art Movies

  • 2024
    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    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...

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)
  • 1999
    All Smiles and Sadness

    All Smiles and Sadness

    All Smiles and Sadness

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    McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other...

    All Smiles and Sadness
  • 2006
    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

    Easy Rider

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    A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

    Easy Rider
  • 1970
    Fall 2

    Fall 2

    Fall 2

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    Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

    Fall 2
  • 2009
    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White

    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...

    Real Snow White
  • 1999
    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York

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    A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he...

    Mrs. Peanut Visits New York
  • 2021
    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

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    In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and...

    By Rook Or By Left Hook
  • 2023
    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)

    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)

    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)

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    This work is an attempt to overcome alienation amidst the fragmented construction reality of everyday narrative. Rethinking the meaning of...

    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)
  • 1994
    Omniprésence

    Omniprésence

    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...

    Omniprésence
  • 2026
    Fatherland

    Fatherland

    Fatherland

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    Single channel video filmed on location in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

    Fatherland
  • 1970
    Shot Through

    Shot Through

    Shot Through

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    How do we react when a gun is fired? Even if it is only aimed at something that is supposedly lifeless? Tom Dale raises these questions in his work...

    Shot Through
  • 2011
    Casting Jesus

    Casting Jesus

    Casting Jesus

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    The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.

    Casting Jesus
  • 2010
    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

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    One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang...

    One Meter Democracy
  • 2013
    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

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    A performance art piece by activist-artist Tasha Diamant. Shot on Feb. 13, 2013, at Diversion 2, a variety show at the Victoria Event Centre.

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic
  • 2014
    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE

    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE

    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE

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    Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (France) in October 2014. Commissioned by...

    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE
  • 1970
    Final Cut

    Final Cut

    Final Cut

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    Where Marina Abramović's shocking debut performance was censored in Amsterdam fifty years ago, now she's considered a superstar. How can new...

    Final Cut
  • 1980
    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes

    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...

    Primal Scenes
  • 1970
    Service with a Smile

    Service with a Smile

    Service with a Smile

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    an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and...

    Service with a Smile
  • 1987
    A Study In Scarlet

    A Study In Scarlet

    A Study In Scarlet

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    A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original 'diorama' building in London. Followed by a celebration of...

    A Study In Scarlet
  • 2017
    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    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...

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release