Performance Art Movies

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...

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

Detested Unrested Attested Arrested' is a video work that deals with the topic of pressure. We constantly have to face pressure In our everyday...

A video portrait of the legendary late performance artist, fashion designer and nightlife icon Leigh Bowery. Atlas's camera follows Bowery as he...

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...

How do we react when a gun is fired? Even if it is only aimed at something that is supposedly lifeless? Tom Dale raises these questions in his work...

After discovering a stranger’s livestream, a month unfolds under his balcony, through watching and being watched.

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original 'diorama' building in London. Followed by a celebration of...

Bas Jan Ader's first fall film shows him seated on a chair, tumbling from the roof of his two-storey house in the Inland Empire.

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

Performance artist Selina Thompson recreates her award-winning and deeply personal monologue about her journey by cargo ship, retracing the route of...

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of...

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...

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

One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang...

Where do I go from here is a performance arthouse-style film exploring the nostalgia of the concept of home in terms of home as a feeling rather than...

In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career...

A body lurchs through the university.