Performance Art Movies

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...

Rachel Rosenthal, through a performance art workshop, challenges a group of young Los Angelinos on a journey to discover, embrace and illustrate...

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...

When an artist stages a deeply personal performance piece, her work becomes an urgent attempt to reach her audience before it's too late.

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

Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas prepares to perform the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Tulsa Opera, navigating the artistic and personal...

Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the...

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,...

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

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

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

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk...

Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the first Athens Rising film...

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

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after...

A documentary that follows the Bixa Pare Collective during an edition of the Sarau Bixaria Literária, exploring art, freedom of expression,...

A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria...

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

A loner artist with a history of abuse meets a beautiful woman who takes an interest in his life and work; leading to a chilling path of tragedy.

A man leaves his quiet life in the country to become a comic entertainer in the Big City. His journey is a Surreal celebration of the descent into a...