Performance Art Movies

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically...

Performance documentation of Mees Joachim's 'Homophobe', a 10 minute live-reenactment of a scene from 'E Kolór Korrá' (2017). A...

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

Welcome to the over-the-top, extravagant world of Leigh Bowery, a key figure in New Romanticism and London nightlife in the 1980s. With his bizarre...

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human...

A body lurchs through the university.

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic...

When an artist stages a deeply personal performance piece, her work becomes an urgent attempt to reach her audience before it's too late.

A man leaves his quiet life in the country to become a comic entertainer in the Big City. His journey is a Surreal celebration of the descent into a...

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

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

A documentary that follows the Bixa Pare Collective during an edition of the Sarau Bixaria Literária, exploring art, freedom of expression,...

Performance artist Tasha Diamant is the first person in the world to stand naked on the street with the Extinction Symbol, which she started in 2012....

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of...

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...

Detested Unrested Attested Arrested' is a video work that deals with the topic of pressure. We constantly have to face pressure In our everyday...

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.