Performance Art Movies

  • 2009
    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White

    Real Snow White

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    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...

    Real Snow White
  • 2000
    Volunteer

    Volunteer

    Volunteer

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    A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

    Volunteer
  • 2022
    In The Pines

    In The Pines

    In The Pines

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    This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and...

    In The Pines
  • 2021
    Re:collections

    Re:collections

    Re:collections

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    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...

    Re:collections
  • 2020
    Making Myself Cry

    Making Myself Cry

    Making Myself Cry

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    A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

    Making Myself Cry
  • 1997
    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)

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    This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

    Six Boxes (Lifesize)
  • 2025
    Gurning at Patrons

    Gurning at Patrons

    Gurning at Patrons

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

    Gurning at Patrons
  • 2006
    Conversation

    Conversation

    Conversation

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    A poetic tale of a conversation.

    Conversation
  • 1992
    Archive Emetica

    Archive Emetica

    Archive Emetica

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    ARCHIVE EMETICA is an experimental non-narrative production, which bombards the viewer with an assortment of deeply unnerving sequences that...

    Archive Emetica
  • 2007
    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

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    Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance...

    A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
  • 2026
    If This World Were Mine

    If This World Were Mine

    If This World Were Mine

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    If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

    If This World Were Mine
  • 2023
    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila

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    Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from...

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila
  • 2000
    Shaft

    Shaft

    Shaft

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

    Shaft
  • 2021
    normal eating

    normal eating

    normal eating

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    A group of people return to see the feast.

    normal eating
  • 1970
    My Body Is Not My Home

    My Body Is Not My Home

    My Body Is Not My Home

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    My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the...

    My Body Is Not My Home
  • 2024
    La seule et dernière fois que j'ai fait de l'art engagé

    La seule et dernière fois que j'ai fait de l'art engagé

    La seule et dernière fois que j'ai fait de l'art engagé

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    Atoll, Victoriaville's contemporary art center, held its first and last fundraiser on December 12, 2023. During the event, artist Antoine Larocque,...

    La seule et dernière fois que j'ai fait de l'art engagé
  • 2020
    Yellow

    Yellow

    Yellow

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    In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness...

    Yellow
  • 2022
    Art of the Encounter

    Art of the Encounter

    Art of the Encounter

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    Walking from Kassel to Athens in 2017, performance artist Marinka Limat is collecting encounters. Involving people she never met before. Certain...

    Art of the Encounter
  • 2005
    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

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    A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!
  • 2019
    Radical Vulnerability

    Radical Vulnerability

    Radical Vulnerability

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    Performance artist Tasha Diamant is the first person in the world to stand naked on the street with the Extinction Symbol, which she started in 2012....

    Radical Vulnerability