Performance Art Movies

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

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

An adaptation of Magda's live performance of The Human Musician

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

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

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were inter...

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

Created in response to a traumatic hate crime, artist, Venus Patel, explores her emotional journey through several archetypes, each of whom perform wi...

Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister Joan’s growing...

A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilience, strength, and unique perspectives on womanhoo...

My Trip to Miami follows a well-meaning, misguided, tourist as he tries to self-actualize via Trip Advisors algorithmic script. My Trip to Miami is a...

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

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 in...

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

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

Five mechanized performances of Survival Research Laboratories, 1985-1986. 70 min. of endless pursuits, unavoidable captures, and merciless punishment...

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of internal...

Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.