Performance Art Movies

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the...

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.

Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from...

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

"As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a...

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

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.

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

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human...

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

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

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...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

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...

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...