Performance Art Movies

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of...

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with...

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns...

The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the...

ANDRO DADIANI's political performances dissect the oppression by state and church in Georgia and conquer Tbilisi's urban spaces. As a queer,...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically...

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local...

A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First...