Performance Art Movies

An investigation into the extraordinary life and work of B. Catling, an eye-popping insight into the late-flourishing career of a maverick artist, tea...

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

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

1 A Bitter Message Of Hopeless Grief 2 The Will To Provoke 3 The Delusions Of Expediency 4 The Pleasure Of Uninhibited Excess 5 A Scenic Harv...

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.

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

Bernhard, an actress-comedienne whose brassy humor attracts a cult-like following, here offers a semiconfessional view of her life's landscape. Childh...

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate colla...

Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot...

moony and Joey Brodnax present WARNING HIGH CUBE - a film accompanying the release of moony’s debut album of the same name. After amassing an impressi...

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

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

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 de...

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a generat...

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and b...

Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film.

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

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