Performance Art Movies

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and...

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

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

A body lurchs through the university.

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

McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other...

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

Single channel video filmed on location in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (France) in October 2014. Commissioned by...

A performance art piece by activist-artist Tasha Diamant. Shot on Feb. 13, 2013, at Diversion 2, a variety show at the Victoria Event Centre.

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

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the...

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses...

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

Atoll, Victoriaville's contemporary art center, held its first and last fundraiser on December 12, 2023. During the event, artist Antoine Larocque,...

unknit the ghost is a live show exploring addiction and cycles of trauma. The show combines live performers choreographed by Charlie Jimenez with...

Artist Fabiola Cepeda sacrifices her hair remaking herself into her Abuelo Pedro as a way of reclaiming the hostile space in Southern Carolina...

Live performance film produced to celebrate the release of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

Performance artist Selina Thompson recreates her award-winning and deeply personal monologue about her journey by cargo ship, retracing the route of...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance