Performance Art Movies

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically...

"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,...

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

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle...

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.

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

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...

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...

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses...

An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist,...

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

The definitive documentary that reviews the enormous career of Esther Ferrer, one of the great Spanish creators in the performance genre. A "hybrid"...

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

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

One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.

The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the...

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

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local...

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts...