Performance Art Movies

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...

An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist,...

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

Live performance film produced to celebrate the release of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he...

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses...

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

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.

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless...

Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show,...

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no...

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

An exploration of the Cultural Revolution that depicts both its chaotic later years – through the story of a squad of Red Army guards running...

Artist Fabiola Cepeda sacrifices her hair remaking herself into her Abuelo Pedro as a way of reclaiming the hostile space in Southern Carolina...

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...