Performance Art Movies

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

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor,...

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

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...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...

Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist collective Gelitin, which since the 1990s has...

Performance documentation of Mees Joachim's 'Homophobe', a 10 minute live-reenactment of a scene from 'E Kolór Korrá' (2017). A...

Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister...

"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,...

Created in response to a traumatic hate crime, artist, Venus Patel, explores her emotional journey through several archetypes, each of whom perform...

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of...

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

An experimental short where one's footsteps create sound on a piano, creaks and all.

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...

IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under...

A group of people return to see the feast.

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that features concert footage, three full-length music...

Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles...

After discovering a stranger’s livestream, a month unfolds under his balcony, through watching and being watched.