Performance Art Movies

Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless...

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of...

No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and...

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

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

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

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

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that features concert footage, three full-length music...

DVD accompanying the book "Coyote III", documenting Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik performing at the Sôgetsu Hall in Tokyo on the 2nd of June...

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

This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle...

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a...

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...

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...