Performance Art Movies
- 1998
Out O' Actions
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Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...
- 2022
First Movement Form
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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.
- 2015
All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)
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Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no...
- 2009
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...
- 2008
Joseph Beuys - Coyote III
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DVD accompanying the book "Coyote III", documenting Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik performing at the Sôgetsu Hall in Tokyo on the 2nd of June...
- 2007
A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
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Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance...
- 1980
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...
- 2022
Solaris
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Performative cinema experience with live music.
- 1994
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...
- 1971
Broken Fall (Organic)
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Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.
- 2022
Blood on the Carpet
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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...
- 2019
Glittering Misfits
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Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...
- 2020
The Vanity
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A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain.
- 2016
Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–
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Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the...
- 2005
Damn! The Threnody In Me!
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A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."
- 2013
You Don't Need Feet to Dance
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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...
- 1967
13/67: Sinus Beta
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Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...
- 1997
Six Boxes (Lifesize)
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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...
- 1972
Seedbed
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“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...
- 2024
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...