Performance Art Movies

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 documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle...

Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations...

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

Using faux archival footage and social media, Adam Himebauch, 38, has created the alter-ego of an artist who rose to fame in the 1970s.

This work is an attempt to overcome alienation amidst the fragmented construction reality of everyday narrative. Rethinking the meaning of...

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...

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

"What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier,...

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

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

Performance art piece

A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.

"Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as...

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

The definitive documentary that reviews the enormous career of Esther Ferrer, one of the great Spanish creators in the performance genre. A "hybrid"...

“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen.

The intimate portrait of M, a Brooklyn performance artist, whose life quickly spirals into absurdity as the reality of her unwanted pregnancy sets in.

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