Performance Art Movies

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of...

“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The School of Narrative Dance project. The artist...

A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...

1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic...

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

Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...

"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,...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark...

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

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...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for...

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk...

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

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness...

Performance art piece