Performance Art Movies

An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for...

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...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

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

Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one...

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

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from...

A documentary short film capturing the world of The Creatures of the Night, an up and coming group of alternative drag artists in the Coachella...

My Trip to Miami follows a well-meaning, misguided, tourist as he tries to self-actualize via Trip Advisors algorithmic script. My Trip to Miami is a...

A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore...

Live performance film produced to celebrate the release of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

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

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating...

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor,...

Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.

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

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of...

A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...

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