Performance Art Movies

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

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

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century,...

A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in...

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

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist...

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...

Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot...

An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.

A ritual about"memory". The words and phrases written on the paper are easy to understand but difficult to define, substituting the usual "...

A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless...

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating...

A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilience, strength, and unique perspectives on...

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

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

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

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

A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen.

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...