Performance Art Movies

In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness...

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

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...

Performative cinema experience with live music.

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

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

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the...

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

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

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

A sonic, surrealist narration in which the musicians fingers’ are the protagonists. Reflecting on common hierarchies and roles of the fingers...

The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.

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

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

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

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...

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