Movies: Performance art

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

Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and ...

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 entering the theme park dressed as Snow White....

A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen....

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson...

A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007....

In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City, from his f...

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

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”....

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

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show, Exhalación: vida y muerte de De La Puríssima. With it, they intend to put an end to the ten-year revolution of EL CUPLÉ...

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

Dubbings, stunts, remixes, aesthetic covers. Diffuse, decentralized, peripheral, tipsy. Theme: an extemporaneous choreographic chanchada. Content: artistic nudity, discrete zoophilia and dance....

A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain....

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen....

Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The School of Narrative Dance project. The artist describes how the nomadic school, founded in 2013, centers on the concept of "assembly" and collective cre...

Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns of her property. Resilient, determined, self aware and funny, Colette embraces the transformative pow...

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....

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