Performance Art Movies

  • 2021
    Salt,

    Salt,

    Salt,

    02021HD

    Performance artist Selina Thompson recreates her award-winning and deeply personal monologue about her journey by cargo ship, retracing the route of...

    Salt,
  • 1983
    Seven Machine Performances

    Seven Machine Performances

    Seven Machine Performances

    01983HD

    A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...

    Seven Machine Performances
  • 2023
    Black Box Investigations

    Black Box Investigations

    Black Box Investigations

    02023HD

    Cracking open the human-camera body.

    Black Box Investigations
  • 2010
    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

    One Meter Democracy

    02010HD

    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...

    One Meter Democracy
  • 1970
    Living Lines

    Living Lines

    Living Lines

    01970HD

    Living Lines is a series of performances and poetry by artist Stephanie Trujillo documented as a short film, drawing inspiration from her Peruvian...

    Living Lines
  • 1972
    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    Seedbed

    01972HD

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

    Seedbed
  • 2007
    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    02007HD

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

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
  • 2017
    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release

    02017HD

    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...

    Couch Destruction: Angel Release
  • 2013
    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic

    02013HD

    A performance art piece by activist-artist Tasha Diamant. Shot on Feb. 13, 2013, at Diversion 2, a variety show at the Victoria Event Centre.

    Naked Stand-up Tragicomic
  • 2021
    Missing Link

    Missing Link

    Missing Link

    02021HD

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

    Missing Link
  • 2004
    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem

    82004HD

    1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic...

    Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem
  • 2021
    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    By Rook Or By Left Hook

    02021HD

    In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and...

    By Rook Or By Left Hook
  • 2021
    Vanitas

    Vanitas

    Vanitas

    102021HD

    "Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as...

    Vanitas
  • 2023
    Rivers

    Rivers

    Rivers

    02023HD

    "The river Lek reminded me of the river Xiang in my hometown Changsha. I had not been home for 3 years and one of the connections with home was the...

    Rivers
  • 2006
    Conversation

    Conversation

    Conversation

    02006HD

    A poetic tale of a conversation.

    Conversation
  • 2012
    The Goddess of Art: Marina Abramović

    The Goddess of Art: Marina Abramović

    The Goddess of Art: Marina Abramović

    02012HD

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

    The Goddess of Art: Marina Abramović
  • 2025
    Gurning at Patrons

    Gurning at Patrons

    Gurning at Patrons

    02025HD

    During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor,...

    Gurning at Patrons
  • 1997
    The Glass II

    The Glass II

    The Glass II

    01997HD

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

    The Glass II
  • 2025
    Unknit the Ghost

    Unknit the Ghost

    Unknit the Ghost

    02025HD

    unknit the ghost is a live show exploring addiction and cycles of trauma. The show combines live performers choreographed by Charlie Jimenez with...

    Unknit the Ghost
  • 1970
    My Body Is Not My Home

    My Body Is Not My Home

    My Body Is Not My Home

    91970HD

    My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the...

    My Body Is Not My Home