Performance Art Movies

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

A young man processes the aftermath of the obscene relationship between him and an older man.

A documentary about the Kosmos collective in Timisoara: a self-organized group of artists, curators, and musicians who revived a former textile...

In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of.

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

Recorded at Auditório Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo , on 24 and 25 June 2006 , the album features the biggest hits singer-songwriter Lenine's career...

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

Cracking open the human-camera body.

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...

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by...

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...

Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...

This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and...

A body lurchs through the university.

When the daughter of a controversial performance artist inherits her late mother's home archive, an unexpected visitor comes to claim the most...

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...

Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...