Performance Art Movies

  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    01998HD

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

    Out O' Actions
  • 2022
    First Movement Form

    First Movement Form

    First Movement Form

    02022HD

    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.

    First Movement Form
  • 2020
    Revel In Your Body

    Revel In Your Body

    Revel In Your Body

    02020HD

    Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

    Revel In Your Body
  • 1979
    16 Millimeter Earrings

    16 Millimeter Earrings

    16 Millimeter Earrings

    101979HD

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

    16 Millimeter Earrings
  • 1971
    Broken Fall (Organic)

    Broken Fall (Organic)

    Broken Fall (Organic)

    61971HD

    Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

    Broken Fall (Organic)
  • 2022
    Blood on the Carpet

    Blood on the Carpet

    Blood on the Carpet

    02022HD

    A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of...

    Blood on the Carpet
  • 2013
    You Don't Need Feet to Dance

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance

    02013HD

    In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career...

    You Don't Need Feet to Dance
  • 1989
    Blind Country

    Blind Country

    Blind Country

    61989HD

    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...

    Blind Country
  • 2021
    Doors and Windows

    Doors and Windows

    Doors and Windows

    02021HD

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

    Doors and Windows
  • 1967
    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

    01967HD

    "The once teeming Riverview Park was shut down in 1967 (with Tom Palazzolo on hand to document the bitter end). The Tattooed Lady of Riverview is a...

    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview
  • 1967
    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

    13/67: Sinus Beta

    31967HD

    Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...

    13/67: Sinus Beta
  • 2024
    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    Mirie It Is (Dusking II)

    02024HD

    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)
  • 2009
    Pretend Not to See Me

    Pretend Not to See Me

    Pretend Not to See Me

    02009HD

    Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns...

    Pretend Not to See Me
  • 1980
    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes

    01980HD

    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
  • 2022
    Solaris

    Solaris

    Solaris

    02022HD

    Performative cinema experience with live music.

    Solaris
  • 2007
    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    02007HD

    Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance...

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
  • 1997
    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    01997HD

    This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)
  • 2009
    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White

    02009HD

    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
  • 2006
    Wallflower

    Wallflower

    Wallflower

    02006HD

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

    Wallflower
  • 2023
    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    02023HD

    Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from...

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila