Performance Art Movies

A group of people return to see the feast.

A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain.

A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

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

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no exception, fr...

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...

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

No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and e...

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović challenges popular notions about what art is.

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 entering the...

"We are beginning a new era of Maya world view that is associated with important events. Departing from an interdisciplinary investigation, anthropolo...

An exploration of the Cultural Revolution that depicts both its chaotic later years – through the story of a squad of Red Army guards running amok in...

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

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 v...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

Performance art piece

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the came...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

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