Performance Art Movies

"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...

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

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

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

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

How do we react when a gun is fired? Even if it is only aimed at something that is supposedly lifeless? Tom Dale raises these questions in his work...

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

"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...

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

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

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...

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.

A body lurchs through the university.

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

Performative cinema experience with live music.

Atoll, Victoriaville's contemporary art center, held its first and last fundraiser on December 12, 2023. During the event, artist Antoine Larocque,...

A group of people return to see the feast.

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

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

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