Performance Art Movies

Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not quite new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip...

Nina Regan, an established performance artist, launches her much-anticipated exhibition, the first since spending a decade in prison for the killing...

Summer 1991. The last days of the Soviet Empire. Dark clouds gathered over Moscow as the Soviet government prepared to turn back the clock of...

Three women artists from Berlin collaborate on an exhibition sponsored by a biotech firm and end up being the first people to experience the...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark...

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Confronting a meter-high red cordon, Anna Uddenberg questions our social consensus: "How can a fragile piece of red fabric so easily direct the flow...

Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.

Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the...

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle...

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century,...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

Turtle Dreams, produced for WGBH-TV, originally aired September 2, 1983. Shot by Ping Chong. Composed by Meredith Monk, performed by her and her...