Performance Art Movies

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

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

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

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

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

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...

A group of people return to see the feast.

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

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the...

Performative cinema experience with live music.

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

Living Lines is a series of performances and poetry by artist Stephanie Trujillo documented as a short film, drawing inspiration from her Peruvian...

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

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor,...

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

"We are beginning a new era of Maya world view that is associated with important events. Departing from an interdisciplinary investigation,...

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

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

A sonic, surrealist narration in which the musicians fingers’ are the protagonists. Reflecting on common hierarchies and roles of the fingers...

Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the...