Performance Art Movies

  • 1983
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    Diorama

    Diorama

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    A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

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  • 2023
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    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)

    The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition)

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    This work is an attempt to overcome alienation amidst the fragmented construction reality of everyday narrative. Rethinking the meaning of reflections and shadows, framed subjects, body movements, screen, as well as sounds that are constructed by connecting the expression of their existence with...

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  • 2021
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    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

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    In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audience reaction was so electric that it inspired...

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  • 1968
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    Stamping in the Studio

    Stamping in the Studio

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    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 generative rhythm reminiscent of native drum beats or primitive dance rituals. However, Nauman is not participating in a social rite or communal...

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  • 1971
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    Broken Fall (Organic)

    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.

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  • 2020
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    Revel In Your Body

    Revel In Your Body

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    Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

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  • 2005
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    The Cost of Living

    The Cost of Living

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    A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local community.

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  • 2010
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    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

    Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice

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

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  • 1980
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    The Big Wheel

    The Big Wheel

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    During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is...

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  • 1998
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    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks

    Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks

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    This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indian Shooting the Indian Act." It's in...

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  • 2016
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    The Opening

    The Opening

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    A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.

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  • 2025
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    Dragphoria

    Dragphoria

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    Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

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  • 1967
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    13/67: Sinus Beta

    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 photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body in a still photograph. (Mubi)

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  • 1967
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    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

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    "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 portrait of its final occupant, Jean Furella, the titular tattooed lady of Riverview's sideshow. Furella first tells how she used to work at the...

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  • 2021
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    Doors and Windows

    Doors and Windows

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

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  • 1999
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    All Smiles and Sadness

    All Smiles and Sadness

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    McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other entirely in clichés, bad poetry, and other contrite forms of speech — a short TV show in which nothing is resolved. The video culminates in an absolutely...

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  • 1979
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    16 Millimeter Earrings

    16 Millimeter Earrings

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    A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York.

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  • 2015
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    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

    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 exception, from a short that interrogates “things that mean other things before becoming a thing that means other things in itself,” and a performance piece...

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  • 2014
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    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE

    DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE

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    Documentation of Lygia Pape’s 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (France) in October 2014. Commissioned by Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes.

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  • 1969
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    Service with a Smile

    Service with a Smile

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

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