Performance Art Movies

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

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

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...

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

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

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...

Confronting a meter-high red cordon, Anna Uddenberg questions our social consensus: "How can a fragile piece of red fabric so easily direct the flow...

Standing against the wall of an art gallery in Santa Ana, California, Chris Burden is shot in the arm with a .22 rifle by a friend positioned about...

Dusking is a project by the artist Lucy Wright—a newly invented tradition, conceived as the counterpart to the morris dancing that takes place...

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

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of.

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.

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

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

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