Performance Art Movies

  • 1972
    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    Seedbed

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    “In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

    Seedbed
  • 1989
    Blind Country

    Blind Country

    Blind Country

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    This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...

    Blind Country
  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

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    Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

    Out O' Actions
  • 1980
    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes

    Primal Scenes

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    Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister...

    Primal Scenes
  • 1970
    Plena Rondo

    Plena Rondo

    Plena Rondo

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    Plena Rondo
  • 1967
    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview

    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...

    The Tattooed Lady of Riverview
  • 2020
    Sympatico

    Sympatico

    Sympatico

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    In the dystopian 2040, a performance artist shots himself dead in front of a live audience. While the extreme act shocks the society, his friend is...

    Sympatico
  • 2019
    Glittering Misfits

    Glittering Misfits

    Glittering Misfits

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    Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...

    Glittering Misfits
  • 2011
    Casting Jesus

    Casting Jesus

    Casting Jesus

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

    Casting Jesus
  • 2009
    Pretend Not to See Me

    Pretend Not to See Me

    Pretend Not to See Me

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    Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns...

    Pretend Not to See Me
  • 2024
    moony's WARNING HIGH CUBE

    moony's WARNING HIGH CUBE

    moony's WARNING HIGH CUBE

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    moony and Joey Brodnax present WARNING HIGH CUBE - a film accompanying the release of moony’s debut album of the same name. After amassing an...

    moony's WARNING HIGH CUBE
  • 2016
    The Quiet Silence

    The Quiet Silence

    The Quiet Silence

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    Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after...

    The Quiet Silence
  • 2012
    This Is Not a Dream

    This Is Not a Dream

    This Is Not a Dream

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    The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the...

    This Is Not a Dream
  • 2020
    Yellow

    Yellow

    Yellow

    02020HD

    In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness...

    Yellow
  • 2017
    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

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    Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to...

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release
  • 1983
    Diorama

    Diorama

    Diorama

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

    Diorama
  • 2004
    Kyupi Kyupi: The Best

    Kyupi Kyupi: The Best

    Kyupi Kyupi: The Best

    02004HD

    Video, music, dance, graphics, modelling... that's what Kyupi Kyupi is, a video + performance group that goes beyond the boundaries of all genres....

    Kyupi Kyupi: The Best
  • 1989
    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements

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    The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...

    The Will To Provoke: An Account Of Fantastic Schemes For Initiating Social Improvements
  • 2016
    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–

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

    Vanessa Place, If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape, 2016–
  • 2010
    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

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    One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang...

    One Meter Democracy