Performance Art Movies

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

A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain.

Created in response to a traumatic hate crime, artist, Venus Patel, explores her emotional journey through several archetypes, each of whom perform...

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

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...

How far are you willing to go to enhance your body and your life? Testing a diverse cocktail of illegal performance enhancing drugs throughout his...

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...

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

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.

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

Filmed live at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, the self-proclaimed sweatiest woman in show business brings you her first ever standup special. Told in...

A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in...

Welcome to the temple of fear and eroticism, as a monstrous madman slowly mutilates poor young girls! See the sensual act of voodoo performed on an...

Pistolteatern in Stockholm, Sweden, was a leading experimental scene in the mid 1960s, comparable to the Living Theater in New York. In the years...

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

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist...

Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister...

Dubbings, stunts, remixes, aesthetic covers. Diffuse, decentralized, peripheral, tipsy. Theme: an extemporaneous choreographic chanchada. Content:...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

The performance takes place in a small setting with an audience, but that's only a part of the artwork. After filming the performance he uses them...