Performance Art Movies

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

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

A poetic tale of a conversation.

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

"Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as...

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 sonic, surrealist narration in which the musicians fingers’ are the protagonists. Reflecting on common hierarchies and roles of the fingers...

1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic...

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of...

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

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

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

A documentary short film capturing the world of The Creatures of the Night, an up and coming group of alternative drag artists in the Coachella...

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

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

Where Marina Abramović's shocking debut performance was censored in Amsterdam fifty years ago, now she's considered a superstar. How can new...

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."