Performance Art Movies

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...

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.

When an artist stages a deeply personal performance piece, her work becomes an urgent attempt to reach her audience before it's too late.

In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of.

A recently hatched turtle, made of sand and by hand, returns to the sea.

An adaptation of Magda's live performance of The Human Musician

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...

This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and...

A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007.

Cracking open the human-camera body.

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by...

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...

New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love...

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the...

A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless...

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless...

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were...