Performance Art Movies

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...

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

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from...

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...

A recently hatched turtle, made of sand and by hand, returns to the sea.

"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...

Video, music, dance, graphics, modelling... that's what Kyupi Kyupi is, a video + performance group that goes beyond the boundaries of all genres....

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

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

A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in...

A documentary short film capturing the world of The Creatures of the Night, an up and coming group of alternative drag artists in the Coachella...

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

Where Marina Abramović's shocking debut performance was censored in Amsterdam fifty years ago, now she's considered a superstar. How can new...

A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

Walking from Kassel to Athens in 2017, performance artist Marinka Limat is collecting encounters. Involving people she never met before. Certain...

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

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

A young man processes the aftermath of the obscene relationship between him and an older man.

A body lurchs through the university.

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....