Performance Art Movies

ANDRO DADIANI's political performances dissect the oppression by state and church in Georgia and conquer Tbilisi's urban spaces. As a queer,...

"Encouraged by a special encounter between myself and an animal, my research into the “humanimal” began. This is a performative...

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the...

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts...

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the...

After discovering a stranger’s livestream, a month unfolds under his balcony, through watching and being watched.

As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, performers and crew members face uncertainty as...

Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not quite new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip...

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

Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was transferred to 35mm film. Portrays a performance...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent...

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

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark...

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

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...

Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film.

Three women artists from Berlin collaborate on an exhibition sponsored by a biotech firm and end up being the first people to experience the...

A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria...